Tag: Commentary
-
Painting With Sand
Sand Paintings Haboobs gone a strayColored sands, percussion laidMandala-raising Red, blue, yellow grainsSandblasting my open mindMandala gazing –LE – 1/8/26
-
That’s Life
That’s Life the end of each chapter in my lifeleft me dangling in mid-air or flailingin whitewater rapids to nowhere new chapters, always begun in disarrayregardless of best intentions and plansalways went astray – but that’s life seldom has anything gone as expectednot always the worst resultbut generally not one fondly projected it’s surprising to…
-
Irony Of Ironies
Irony of Ironies sometimes it’s all too tiringfacts and opinionsbeliefs and conditioningpropaganda commercialsinternal dilemmacognitive dissonance sometimes it’s all toopedantic toosemantic toocerebral or tooemotional to appreciatethe irony of it all survival depends oncooperation of the wholebrains and heartsindividual and communityhumanity and our ecologyless humankind ends alone and forgottenin burned-out remnantsof abundance of ouronce high civilizationirony of…
-
Even Flawed Humans
Even Flawed Humans even flawed humanscan, from time to time,have profound insights some even produce volumesfilled with uncensored, deepcritical thought some spoken in commoneveryday vernacularwhile some are more pedantic thus communicating witha wide swath of humanitythe mysteries of our common realities –LE – 12/31/25
-
That Depends On The Day…
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? Depending on what’s happening in my private world and the external world around me, I can be drawn to an event or a few in my past or humanity’s common past. Or portents of current or recent actions may have me fatally…
-
First Sunday In January – Morning Ride
First Sunday In January – Morning Ride the morning air was heavy and thickhazy sunshine filtered throughthe thickly marbled sky encountered only a couple ofdog-walkers using the Loopand a paint horse and riderleisurely ambling southin the dry riverbed yellow goat head thorn blossomscyclists with air-filled tires’ banecovered large swaths ofthe Loop’s sides along with an…
-
It’s A New Year
It’s A New Year a new year with itsnew prioritiesresolutionsclean slatesand such ? or the eternalever-present nowconnecting whatwe thought we knewto a futurecompletely unknown every instant of nowanother step in thecosmic dance and flow no slates are cleanmarked with actions andmemories indelible in andwith our personalitiesconditioned by proximities so, even withoutthe vaunted ‘clean slate’all resolves…
-
Info Bombardment
Info Bombardment information floods us 24/7overloading perceptionsoverriding common sense too much to processnever mind anycritical thought but everyone seems to crave moreboth social and legacy mediatrying to even the score as each source negates the otherso-called facts distortedto cover the elites’ derriers Nietzsche gave us the clueno facts but perceptionspropaganda of the ruling few perceptions…
-
Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 1/2/26
Three of us walked the line at the VA’s Ajo entrance for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:30 am. As in previous weeks, we had about a 75% response rate. I only saw one confirmed negative, a bouncing thumb down… Our third person, walking the line, is from Veterans For Peace. He joins us from time…
-
Glaring Sun
This is a memory from the first three quarters of my life in the fozen north Glaring Sun Eyes squint, glaring sunfrom snow hills against blue skiesdry pampas grass waves. –LE – Circa 1999
CynOp 