Category: Commentary
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/14/25
Our little group sported seven of us for this morning’s protest at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA. Responses today were similar to last Friday’s, from 70-75% of those entering and leaving for the morning shift change (we were there from 6:30-8:15 am) responded. There was only one blatant negative response. All the rest…
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Delilah
Delilahby Tom Jones I saw the light on the night that I passed by her windowI saw the flickering shadow of love on her blindShe was my womanAs she deceived me I watched and went out of my mind My, my, my DelilahWhy, why, why DelilahI could see, that girl was no good for meBut…
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It’s Just Your Standard Mental Fog
The past few years have been filled with ‘mental fog’… Here’s hoping that some of it is finally starting to lift or at least dissipate a little. The protests of the last few months and recent elections would seem to suggest as much… I guess we’ll just have to wait and see … time will…
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Understanding The Universe
Or Universal Understanding, perhaps? Understanding The Universe No human mind can comprehendin all its complexitiesthe entirety of reality Even our tinyremote sectionin this far flung arm ofour relatively smallMilkyway is bekyondour ken And thenthere’s that quantum‘subgum’ If you think youunderstand the ‘subgum’then you don’tto paraphraseFeynman Add it all up andwhat do we find No ‘human’…
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Who, Indeed?
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met? I once met Jimi Hendrix, so I’m told. I related the tale in my memoir section on the ‘New York Commune’: https://cynop.xyz/2023/07/19/the-new-york-commune-memoir-continued/ I did, however, meet Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame at Publix bood store, at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, for a lecture…
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Can Your Hear Them?
Stifled Cries From time-to-time the stifled criesof our most honored lies Come spinning up from the depthsof my unconscious mind, The closest thing to connectionwith universal lives, Whispering a compelling storyof need and greed, Of hypocrisy that softens the mind’till the lies succeed. Sometimes, night or day,as I lounge and let my mind stray, I…
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2nd Sunday Morning Of November – On The Loop
2nd Sunday Morning Of November – On The Loop rode out under a bright blue domefading to gossamer behind the peaksto the horizonsnot a cloud in the skynot even a lousy contrail ghost of the waning gibbous moonhovers at eleven o’clockin the western skyor two o’clock in the southern view morning’s long shadowsdappled the pathand…
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My Most Expensive Personal Item…
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). I’d have to say that it was my Bachelors degree, both in terms of money, personal grief, and family/relationship upheaval. And, in truth, I doubt that it was worth the time, expense, and all the grief that went with it. I…
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Minimalism
Minimalism the lessons of my lifelearned over years ofmore or lessunrelenting strifepoint to conclusionsmany won’t ordon’t like less is moreand all too oftenmore is lesssounds contradictoryI know it took me most ofa lifetime to digest the simpler a motionsay, in self-defensethe more likely itmeets with success the less clutter (things)one has accumulatedyou know…toys, tools, utensilsmagazines,…
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One of Those Days
One of Those Daysby Eilen Jewell Well, something’s in the airBurning hot and sweetThere’s a man over thereSittin’ in the street I’m over hereWith a rusted forty-fourSittin’ on the stepsOf your back doorIt’s one of those days Well, the only thing that movesIs the laundry on the lineAnd a dusty dog that bitesJust to kill…
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