Tag: Commentary
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Late August Sunday Morning Ride
Late August Sunday Morning Ride The 7:am airVery warm and dryWhite paintbrush dabsIn the northern skyLike waves-crestsOn a tranquil blueSea Long morning shadowsCast across our pathA strobelight effectDisorienting in its aspectDodging skinksSlow to react Saw a hawkI thinkToo far awayTo be sureCertainly lookedLike a hawkishLanding on thatDead tree branchAs it surveyedThe riverbedBelow Lots of bikers…
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The Milkyway
No, not the candy bar! The Milkyway pathway in the skyfrom our small cornerout on the peripheryto its center and beyondhorizontallybut can’t see theother sideprobably not evento the center perpendicularlyand tangentiallyat a multitudeof angles other galaxiesdistant luminouspinpricks inthe sparkling tapestryof the night sky but only ifLuna or otherastronomicalfireworkslike comets andartificial satellitesdon’t steal ourattention andimagination that…
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Wisdom And Knowledge
Wisdom And Knowledge They are differentYou know One definition:Wisdom is old knowledgeApplied to the new But what is knowledge really?Linked neurons in a brianBased on perceptionsFlawed in the mainRecorded and storedIn clay, ink, and digitally What we call ‘facts’Based on fictionsInvented by humansTo explain what we perceive But, as some deep thinkers seeThere are no…
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Rest In This Season Of Life
This is a prompt from one of my journals: What does rest look like for me in this season of life? It looks like rest at any other time and season, mainly doing one thing at a time, along with listening to whatever music eases my mind at any given time… gentle movement (exercise, like…
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The Silky Veils Of Ardor
The Silky Veils Of Ardorby Joni Mitchell I am a poor wayfaring strangerTraveling through all these highs and lowsI heard there was no sicknessAnd no toil or dangerJust mercy and plentyWhere peaceful waters flowWhere peaceful waters flow Come all you fair and tender school girlsBe careful now when you court young menThey are like the…
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Yet Again, Another Same-ol’, Same-ol’
Same-ol’, Same-ol’ politics propagandafake info run amuckdaily inscrewtableskeep us confusedoutrage-filledby algorithms programedfor clicks from hatredoutrage and spectacleso we don’t know ifwe’re coming or going the cynical strategyfrom behind thesecret vail by thosepulling the stringsflapping the jawsof their puppetsdisplayed in themisinformed mediaintentional or notwhile that heavyopaque curtainprotects the villainsrunning this authoritarianka-ka dance it’s an old strategysays…
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Current Motivations
What motivates you? My Current Motivations I’m motivated by the challenge of trying to help insure an equitable, safe, and fulfilling future (rather than the dystopian one, pushed by our current leaders and owners) for our children and their descendants. Working to help mitigate the hypocrisy, lies, and social conditioning of our collective human history,…
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Memoir Addendum – Current Insights
Memoir Addendum – Current Insights I was able to climb out of the chrysalis of my early conditioning (religious and cultural mythologies) in my teen years and early adulthood. But I was usually filled with indecision and could easily fall back into it with the right incentives, like my first wife. She gave me no…
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My Top Ten? … Well, there’s many more than Ten!
What are your top ten favorite movies? This is in no order, off the top of my head, and where a movie is part of a multi-film franchise. It includes other films in the series that I liked as well… Yojimbo, Star Wars, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, The Fifth Element, Tombstone, V For…
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The Timeless Morality Play
The Timeless Morality Play Love without sex is frequentSex without love is commonOne does not require the otherBut the most memorable sexLives on in memory till one’s endWhich translates into love That is true Love that only seeks thatWhich makes itsRecipient happyAnd fulfilledIs love that is true Too Social conditioning inserts itselfInto relationshipsOne and allDraws…
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