Tag: Commentary
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The Devil Is An Angel Too
The Devil Is An Angel Tooby Janiva Magness Well, you look just like an angel, you sound so bright and true,You seem so sweet coming down my street, but the devil is an angel too,The devil is an angel too.Somehow you seem familiar – haven’t I seen you before?Got a different name, but is it…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 5/15/26
There were only two of us anchoring the picket line at the Ajo gate for this morning’s shift change. We walked the line from 6:30am-8:15am. There seemed to be a little less response this morning than there had been for the last several weeks… perhaps 75-85%. There were only a couple of definite negatives, a…
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Mid-May Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop
Mid-May Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop Rode out under another pristine skyNot a single cloud shading Sol’s eye The sandy Santa CruzOnce again, bone dry The season of yellowOn pause or at an end A few faded Brittlebush blossomsFluttering pale yellow in the gentle breeze In the High Sonoran ‘dry season’Between the winter rains…
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Guilt
Guilt Guilt like ‘sin’Inventions of societyOf human minds NOT spiritual truthNor mandated by any godWhatever you perceive it be Merely human inventionsJust like the restOf human society –LE Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is…
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Mid Spring Sunny Day Haiku
Sparrows’ songs sunshine,vapor trails across deep blue –dried-out worm… Sol’s prey? The sun’s dream, burningmy shadow on gray concrete –goat-head thorns abound. –LE
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The Present
The Present Past and future are illusions.They exist only in the present,which is what there isand all there is. – Alan Watts
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Good Intentions
Good Intentions Pavers on Hell’s roadSo they sayGood intentionsAnd righteous dismay Not bad, nor evil per seJust subjective likeWould’a, should’a, could’aWith no there, there Kinetic energy, coiled But no place to goNo physical releaseJust greased potential Most actions are reactivePlanned and controlled onesSeldom grantedIntention vastly overrated –LE
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Saturday Morning Ride
Saturday Morning Ride In Early May pristine, May, cloudless skyriding south through long shadowscrisp, clean lineslike quick reference pointsif one knew how to read themthe sun sitting at 10 o’clockoff the eastern horizon the path was crowded todaybikies, runners, walker, and joggersweekend warriors out on displaytrying to squeeze thirty milesinto 2 or three hoursif their…
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Words Have Power, Are Magical
Yes, words have emmense power and are magical, the spells, the incantations, the plots, the cajoling praise, the intentional behind the scenes machinations, that ultimately helped generate sapiens rise. Words Are Power, Are Magic all words have power whenspoken or written in context Latin or other ancient tonguesare not required only used to confuse andexclude…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 5/8/26
Four of us anchored the line outside the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA from 6:20am – 8:15am for the morning shift change. The response rate was about the same as it has been for the last few weeks, from 85%-90%. Was only able to pick out a couple of head shakes, ‘no’, one ‘flipped…
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