Tag: Ethics
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Last Saturday Morning Ride In April
Last Saturday Morning Ride In April Sun sat at about 40° off the horizonHazy through the folds of cloudsLike rippled veils overheadTree shadows soft and indistinct A couple of Roadrunners crossedOur path, along with a fewMorning doves and SparrowsThat took to the sky as we road by There was a family of Prairie DogsStanding in…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest – 4/24/26
Three of us held the line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate from 6:30-8:00am for the morning shift change. The responses were similar to last week’s, 75%-85%, from what I could see… Some people’s car windows are tinted so dark it’s impossible to see the response or lack thereof through them, especially with the rising…
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An Inverse Relationship
An Inverse Relationship From the beginning of human communities,even the less than sharp among ushave understood that the ‘common bond’of roots and neighborhood fadeas wealth and power are gained. Now, experiments in psychologyhave formulated a mathematical maxim: Empathy is inversely proportionalto individual wealth and power. In experiments where fourroughly equal persons engagein some mundane task,where…
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Earth Day
Earth Day – April 22, 2026 Earth, locus of human kindWithout which, there’d be noWarmth, community, or mindHumans wouldn’t even be mythical But for thousands of years,We’ve tried to conquer,Master and replace her We kill and try to synthesizeOur basic constituents, But something’s always missingNever quite as good as the originalThough we loudly claim otherwise.…
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Nothing There…
Nothing There… An old sentiment, unfortunately life on Starship Earth seemsto have only gotten worse… While I continue to hopefor better tomorrowsthey seem very far off… Looking around on any given day,surveying what human ‘civilization’ has wrought, the consequence of our deepest philosophical thought… As a tear forms in my eye,spills and slides down my…
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Who Knows?
Original is from the late ’90s; just revised to make current… Who Knows? – v2 Who knows the whys of wherefores gone awry?Who sees through the skin of the curved blue sky,Or plumbs the depths of chaos and causation, Seeking a genuine realization, orPerhaps just a wisdom pearl and dissolutionBack to an essence universal? –LE
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Blue Skies…
blue skies common enoughin the high Sonoran bright sun-etchedbar and QR codes specify place and bearingon this narrow pathway the riverbed sandy and drygreen and yellow splotches deep in its sway with desert trees and shrubsroots to the flowing river below ground out of sight since the 1950sonly flows above ground in downpours now yes,…
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Save Our VA Tucson Friday Protest – 4/17/26
Four of us anchored the line at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA this morning from 6:30-8:30am for the shift change. Response rate was similar to the last few weeks, with somewhere between 75%-85%, with 3 very observable negatives. There was a definite head skake of ‘no’, a bouncing ‘bird’, and a ‘get a…
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Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Hereby Pink Floyd So, so you think you can tellHeaven from Hell, blue skies from pain?Can you tell a green field from a cold steel railA smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghostsHot ashes for trees, hot air for…
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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 discourse. Pondered this as a metaphor produced the following. Clean Lenses funny how distorted reality seemswhen…
