Category: Commentary
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Always Preposterous 1/2
Always Preposterous 1/2 National and international news is often quite revealing in what it neglects. Just look at what is going on around us right now. From destroying our water resources and pumping so much garbage into our air that our climate is already changing (undoubtedly past the critical tipping point), ruining two of the…
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Early Youth a Memory
This abstract is based on the watercolor below. They were done about a day apart. That’s just how my mind works… take something fairly ordinary and deconstruct it, make something ‘different’ out of it… Youth – A Distant Memory When very youngGot lost and coldSpanked for runningOut in the roadEscaped fromRope-tied pantsBy taking them off…
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Reality an Idea
Reality an Idea Humans haveThe gift of wordsTo express and informWhat’s real And what’s not Make us soarOr cry and deploreSet us upFor the big failUnquestioninglyConsumed as real They express ideasSymbols physicalMental audibleThoughts individualCultural universalSwimming inGraymatter domesCan be changedAt whim and willThe cryptic tomesOf Reality –LE
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (3/3) Where the Declaration of Independence declared the “unalienable Rights” of all men, the Constitution substituted the rights of the wealthy to property and power. It is not a “holy” document. It can, and has been changed multiple times over its history (usually to the benefit of power…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (2/3) The ruling classes, the rich elite (in their own minds) claim ownership and stewardship of all the discovered and undiscovered resources and the land masses of the planet. Ninety-nine percent of humanity lives at the “pleasure,” beck and call of this one percent. The rest live in…
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Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3)
Birthrights of all children of Mother Earth (1/3) • No one chose where and to whom he/she was born. • We were all born in the “amniotic fluid” (biosphere) of our mother, Earth. • None of our direct biological mothers would be viable without that same “amniotic fluid” either. • From our present understanding of…
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Season’s Greetings
I hope you all have the holiday experience you hope for, whatever your preference. I also hope that this season brings the peace and good will to all that it’s supposed to represent. –LE
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Don’t Pick Up That Phone
This is my response to all the cold-calls and messages I recieve, even though I’m on the ‘Natioanl Don’t Call Register’… Ha! What a joke… Don’t Pick Up That Phone rather pick-up sticksor hexagram wandsor telegramsinstructions for hallucinationsdelusions of grandeurconjure objects of desireor the lack thereof, whereofwhile writing trivial essaysabout wealth and gainat the expenseof…
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From the Summer of 2009 (Some things never seem to change)
Intro: Cleveland OH – Summer ’09, lunch time, walking the industrial parkway in 90+ degrees. Lunch Time Walk The first cicadas of the season trill through occasional traffic lulls on the boulevard,Walking through Liatris, Cat Tails, andPeriwinkle-blue Chicory, andQueen Anne’s lace in the ditches. As I stroll past manicured, dead brown lawns, evidence of this year’s long…
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Philosphy
Philosophy I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’, thus my blog, CynOp. I liken that to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core, optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful is encased with hardened and finely honed and sharpened cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social BS and junk. The…
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