Tag: Ethics
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Stew and Recipe
Stew and Recipe Closing, the waking dream unfolds, the path to consciousness — untold,The printer hums, the keyboard clicks, the cursor blinks, 1 human brain (shredded). The surge crashes, the mind blanks — consciousness returns. 2-much stock (quantum soup — quarks, mesons, pisons, and other subatomic nutrients — unprocessed). Bio-transducer/receiver translates the quantum runes,…
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Bird of Prey
Bird of Prey sitting in a dead oldbuzzards’s tree, preeningchecking-out the pathnorth and south, thenstaring keenly into the wash I’m not sure what it wassomeone said buzzardlooked more like a largehawk to me, buttoo far to clearly see four times the sizeof the strutting pigeonsI’ve seen in the parksand sitting the power-lines along city streets…
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Memorial Day 2024
A reprise of a memoir memory for today’s remembrances. During WWII, my dad was a radio operator on a Merchant Marine Tanker supplying the US Navy’s War Machine in the south Pacific. During wartime, the Merchant Marine becomes an Auxilary of the Navy. Dad received his training to become a radio operator at Great Lake…
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Kingman Retreat – Memoir Continued
Kingman Retreat We took a couple of days’ retreat in Kingman, AZ. It’s 3400’ above sea-level in the Hualapai valley, between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain ranges. It sits at the juction of I-40 and US 93. It also sits on old Rt 66 in northwestern Arizona. During WW11, it serviced an airbase that housed…
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Our New Home in Tucson – Memoir Continued
We Bought a House in The South End of Tucson We had walked in the neighborhood many times, but had not paid much attention to the house we’d eventually buy. It just looked too expensive and out of our reach. We didn’t even know it would be up for sale by the time we were…
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First Sailing Lesson – An Ancient Memory
I was 12 at the time of this episode in my life. I had sprained my ankle on our trip to Boston and was using my great grandfather’s bent bamboo cane with its brass ends… First Sailing Lesson Boston HarborSkiff with a sailTacks into the windEasily Grandpa showsMe the ropesHand on the tillerEye on sailWind-rippled…
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Our First House in Tucson – Memoir Continued
Our First House in Tucson The house came together pretty well. We set it up comfortably with a combination of things we brought with us and furnishings we picked up here and there after we arrived. We did buy new bed frames and mattresses. Both Ming and Che settled in well. There was a chain…
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Typical Day on the Loop
A reprise from this time last year. Typical Day on the Loop Riding the Loophalf reclinedsun glintingoff side mirrormy two front wheelshugging the curvesback-wheel gearingdrives me easilyup hills and downpowered by legsand feet on pedalsupfront and raisedalmost eye-level Roadrunner scootsacross the pathchasing a skink lone coyote matchesmy pace butdown in the washoccasionally looksmy way as…
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Mid-May and Green Sticks
Mid-May and Green Sticks mid-May and at least halfthe Palo Verde are wearingtheir bright yellow, blossom-bonnets petals of fallen gold circumscribethe feet of those green stickswith a deep amarillo shadow tree-pollen count was highfor this morning’s ride onthe southern side rolling along the Tucson Loop –LE – 5/16/24
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Believer
Believer by Imagine Dragons First things firstI’ma say all the words inside my headI’m fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh-oohThe way that things have been, oh-ooh Second thing secondDon’t you tell me what you think that I could beI’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my…
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