Category: Ethics
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Memoir – Wage-slave Career – Part 7
Memoir – Wage-slave Career Continued After a couple of months of side-jobs, I was sent to Diebold by a temp agency (don’t remember which one) to incorporate the new Sarbanes-Oxley standards into their technical manuals and business writing MS Word templates and spreadsheets. I was only there for about 6 months, but they were paying…
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Wraiths Caught In The Storm
Wraiths Caught In The Storm Looking around on any given daySurveying what human civilizationHas wrought, the consequence ofOur deepest philosophical thought A tear forms in my eyeSpills and slides down my cheekRaise my hand to wipe it awayBut there’s nothing there… Translucent wraiths caught in the stormBest intentions perverted toPlundering beautiful biodiversityFor greed’s sake and…
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Summer’s Last Holiday
This is a repost from last year… because it still applies. We also need to reconize and encourage the recent remobilization of labor in this country and abroad. It’s the only chance we have against the ruling class and their lickspittles… less an actual, French-style revolution… Summer’s Last Holiday used to be the summerseason’s first…
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End of August – Ride
End of August – Ride feathery fair weather cloudsmarble the cerulean domebright sun heats up the eastern sky white, yellow, and orange butterfliesflit among blousy Brittlebush blossomsand the faint odor of sage barrel and elephant ear cactiand prickly pear in bloom fromthe recent monsoons a large falcon lands on the guardrailas we approach, hawkeye-ing meas…
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Almost Lover
Almost Loverby A Fine Frenzy (Written by: Alison Sudol) Your fingertips across my skinThe palm trees swaying in the wind, imagesYou sang me spanish lullabiesThe sweetest sadness in your eyes, clever trick Well, I’d never want to see you unhappyI thought you’d want the same for me Goodbye, my almost loverGoodbye, my hopeless dreamI’m trying…
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Providence At Kennedy Lake
Providence placid lake mirrors skyheron stands with fishermen –waiting providence –LE –8/17/24
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 6
Post Second Divorce Until Retirement For the next twelve years, until I retired, I worked at a series of free-lance technical writing jobs, procured through various temp agencies. And in between those, I worked as a substitute teacher, a lawn care provider, mower, and a waiter. I also taught Aikido and Tai Chi a couple…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 5
Memoir – My Wage-slave Career Continued I left the narrative off here in my last last memoir post. So, to reiterate a bit before continuing. After Hall Processesing, I did more free-lance writing, substitute teaching, and even drove a taxi cab for a while before my next full-time technical writing job at Kinetico Engineering Systems…
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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 and mass media. As I pondered this as a metaphor, the following resulted. Clean Lenses funny…
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Another Late August Ride
Here we go again… Another Late August Ride a flock of pigeons erupts from the desert floora low cloud rolling over blousy foliageand the cracked dry ground in accordance with the blazing sun above9 o’clock in the eastern sky, with featheryfair weather clouds on the eastern horizon contradicting today’s forecast thunderstormwarnings for late afternoon and…
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