Category: Ethics
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No Kings Protest – Reid Park – Tucson – 3/28/26 We stood the line with hundreds of people, perhaps a thousand, though I’m sure the administration and its MSM arms will claim it was only a few dozen or so. And that’s only for the Reid Park assembly. The larger one was from Speedway and…
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The Double Bind
The Double Bind Of Human Awareness you are a free agentyou as a member of societycountry, clan, and familymust love these entitiesof which you are apartbut acceptable onlyif the love is un-coercedactions are acceptibleonly if un-coercedbut coercion is omnipresentthe very definition ofsocial, familial, culturalnorms –LE – 3/25/26
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 3/27/26
Four of us held the line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo entrance from 6:30-8:30am for the morning shift change. The percentage of responses today was similar to last week’s, somewhere between 75-85%, with only two negatives that saw. I just continued to smile and nod… Tomorrow morning, we’ll be on the line for the No…
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In My Secret Life
In My Secret Lifeby Leonard Cohen I saw you this morningYou were moving so fastCan’t seem to loosen my gripOn the pastAnd I miss you so muchThere’s no one in sightAnd we’re still making loveIn My Secret Life I smile when I’m angryI cheat and I lieI do what I have to doTo get byBut…
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In the larger scheme of things…
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 the sane and insanedepending on mycontradictory points of viewrather than so naturala born leader’s perspectivesdon’t pick up that phoneif you’d rather… NOT –LE
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Tuesday Morning Tucson Loop Ride
Tuesday Morning Tucson Loop Ride a short one this morningdown the Julian Wash Greenwaywest on Silverlake road tothe dry Santa Cruz then south and homeby way of the Julian WashArcheological parkwhich was empty and stark the ride was sunny and brightwith only one skinkplaying chicken with my bikeI guess I wonhe was nowhere in sight…
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The Universe Breathes Meditation
The Universe Breathes Meditation The universe breathesthrough you and meyou and I through it It sees through my / our eyesand hears through my / our earssmells through my / our nosestastes through my / our tonguesfeels through my / our feelingsinternal and externalblending to form ourmutual biospherewhich nothingis independent of I, you and me,…
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Red Sky In The Morning, Sailors Take Warning
The red skies are most morning, but most refuse to see it… A Red Sky A red sky drippingoozing bloodbackdrop ofsocietycivilization progressive pretensecrusted andsmothered indisease ashblackish grayishpoverty deathdestroying everynatural thing ittouches vaunted techno-progress dealingdeath efficientlyprofoundlyinexorably Earth’s progenyfeed – declineclothe – declinehouse – declinewe’ve chosen asixth major extinctionfor greed’s sakefor profitfor ‘progress’ humanity but a virusblight…
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A Long List Of Ironies
A Long List Of Ironies Expecting optimistic resultsfrom cynical endeavorsand thinking What is a cynic? Some have saida disappointed optimist What is an optimist? Some have saidone not grounded in the obvious What is ‘the obvious’? Just look around you But then, you tell me tobelieve what you saynot what I see Just another in…
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Save Our VA Protest Tucson 3/20/26
Three of us held the line from 6:30-8:15am at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA for the morning shift change. Responses were about the same as last week’s, about 80%. There were no outright negatives that I saw today. Progress, or at least the ‘negatives’ just didn’t feel like responding at all, rather like…
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