Tag: Photography
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First Morning Ride Since The Equinox
First Morning Ride Since The Equinox Rode out under a bright skyThe blue less intense at the horizonsOccasional wispy white cloudsPainting the dome overhead Tucson’s surrounding mountain fortressesSilhouettes in the horizon’s mists Amarillo exploding acrossThe Tucson basinPalo Verde, Brittlebush, Desert MarigoldsAnd Greasewood The occasional crimson counterpoint ofThorny Bougainvillea climbing fences and walls The dry, sandy…
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A Long List Of Ironies
A Long List Of Ironies Expecting optimistic resultsfrom cynical endeavorsand thinking What is a cynic? Some have saida disappointed optimist What is an optimist? Some have saidone not grounded in the obvious What is ‘the obvious’? Just look around you But then, you tell me tobelieve what you saynot what I see Just another in…
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Save Our VA Protest Tucson 3/20/26
Three of us held the line from 6:30-8:15am at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA for the morning shift change. Responses were about the same as last week’s, about 80%. There were no outright negatives that I saw today. Progress, or at least the ‘negatives’ just didn’t feel like responding at all, rather like…
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St. Patrick’s Day Morning Ride
St. Patrick’s Day Morning Ride springtime Sonoran foliage arrayedin many shades of greenincluding Kelly yellows dominated the bloomsfrom Brittlebush and Desert Marigoldsto Greasewood’s pimpled blooms andthe those on the crazy twisted shapesof Mesquite there was the iridescent peachof Desert Mallow, an accentfunctioning more like a commaas we rolled along the Loop didn’t see any fauna…
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The Cat’s Paw Ball
The Cat’s Paw Ball Tuxedoed kittiesin a pile under a chairdance the cat’s paw ball –LE
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Save Our VA Protest 3/13/26
Yes, I know, Friday the thirteenth… Fortunately, I’m not superstitious. Four of us held the line at the South (Ajo) entrace to the Tucson VA for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:15am. We had an 80-90% response rate again today, with only two negatives that I could see.
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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…
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Hey, How’s My Future?
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Hey, future me, How has the world treated you since 2026? I’m not sure how you’ll perceive this, or even if you’ll (I’ll) still be sentient for my (our) hundredth revolution of old Sol. I expect that your life and insights have changed (evolved) by then as much…
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Reading The Morning Sky
Reading the Morning Sky A perfect ellipsis of cloudsDot, dot, dot …On a blank blue skyA meteorological signInferring something left outOr more to comeBut unsaid Will cloud calligraphyNear the end of timePaint an exclamation point !Or a large PERIOD . ? Reading the morning skyOver the Santa CatalinasTo see what it may prophesy –LE
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Inaudible Teachings
Inaudible Teachings everybody’s talkin’ at mearound methrough mespinning their perceptionstheir fairytale fictionsof reality not ‘real’ realityjust their’sbased on conditioningthe birth lotteryand wishful thinking find myself wishingthey’d all just go awayfind their silencesit in the momentopen their perceptionsand just feel the day no judgementsno ‘convictions’no dogmas to defendjust open and receptiveto this momentand the universe’s inaudible…
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