Category: Commentary
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Earth Day
Earth Day – April 22, 2026 Earth, locus of human kindWithout which, there’d be noWarmth, community, or mindHumans wouldn’t even be mythical But for thousands of years,We’ve tried to conquer,Master and replace her We kill and try to synthesizeOur basic constituents, But something’s always missingNever quite as good as the originalThough we loudly claim otherwise.…
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Tucson Sunset 4/21/26
Tucson Senset Tucson’s High Sonoran sunsetsalways breathtakingEach one differsdepending on time of yearcloud formationsand ‘thickness’ of the atmosphere A panorama of crimsonsyellows and orangesshades of sky blue and dark graysas the western mountainsrise up to swallow the glowand dusk fades the light away –LE – 4/21/26
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Nothing There…
Nothing There… An old sentiment, unfortunately life on Starship Earth seemsto have only gotten worse… While I continue to hopefor better tomorrowsthey seem very far off… Looking around on any given day,surveying what human ‘civilization’ has wrought, the consequence of our deepest philosophical thought… As a tear forms in my eye,spills and slides down my…
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Who Knows?
Original is from the late ’90s; just revised to make current… Who Knows? – v2 Who knows the whys of wherefores gone awry?Who sees through the skin of the curved blue sky,Or plumbs the depths of chaos and causation, Seeking a genuine realization, orPerhaps just a wisdom pearl and dissolutionBack to an essence universal? –LE
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Blue Skies…
blue skies common enoughin the high Sonoran bright sun-etchedbar and QR codes specify place and bearingon this narrow pathway the riverbed sandy and drygreen and yellow splotches deep in its sway with desert trees and shrubsroots to the flowing river below ground out of sight since the 1950sonly flows above ground in downpours now yes,…
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Save Our VA Tucson Friday Protest – 4/17/26
Four of us anchored the line at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA this morning from 6:30-8:30am for the shift change. Response rate was similar to the last few weeks, with somewhere between 75%-85%, with 3 very observable negatives. There was a definite head skake of ‘no’, a bouncing ‘bird’, and a ‘get a…
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Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Hereby Pink Floyd So, so you think you can tellHeaven from Hell, blue skies from pain?Can you tell a green field from a cold steel railA smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghostsHot ashes for trees, hot air for…
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Clean Lenses
My glasses were so dirty the other morning that they were giving me a headache. As I was cleaning them, it occurred to me that they were a fitting metaphor for the current distortions and virtiol of our social discourse. Pondered this as a metaphor produced the following. Clean Lenses funny how distorted reality seemswhen…
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Mid April Morning Ride
A Mid April Morning Ride bright blue skya circular roll of cloudsaround the Tucson basinlike the city just blewa giant smoke ringwhich rolled ever so slowlyout to the four square horizonsending in a marble skyby the return home not many on the Loop todaya few morning dovesalong the wayand a few spandex-cladbikies in a hurry…
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Not Convincing?
Not Convincing? too much hatred and vitrioltoo much finger-pointingmaking me numbinglyuncomfortable index fingers pointing atwhatever-whoeverwhile remaining fingerspoint back at the point-er but who really is to blamelooking into any reflectivesurface will show you whoshould partake in the shame we need cleansing fire or raincleanse this infested pyramidup to the top of the chainwhere sit the…
