Tag: Rant
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We Are All Philosophers
We Are All Philosophers I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’. I liken it to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core being optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful, which is encased in hardened and finely honed cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social junk (BS). The thing about…
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Too Many Times To Count
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Yes, and while I enjoyed the performing (locally, off and on for about 15 years), I ended up hating the ‘business’ aspects of performing (managers, bookings, marketing) and the whole ‘music scene’ of those times. I’ve also read some of my verses at different poetry…
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Cartoonish…
What’s your favorite cartoon? My favorite(?) cartoon is the one I witness daily… ‘modern life on planet earth’… Yes, I know, I’m supposed to take our zeitgeist seriously, but when I look at the ridiculousness of our daily lives in this ‘modern world’, I can’t help but chuckle (that is, when I’m not feeling just…
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Trust and Instincts – Yes
Do you trust your instincts? It took me ‘a while’ to trust my gut (instincts, if you will). Everything in our social conditioning from education to social gatherings infused me with the idea that everyone else’s opinions were more important, more ‘reasoned’, more real than my own. Therefore, I should listen to them and not…
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First Impressions
What’s the first impression you want to give people? This is not today’s prompt, but I finally decided how I’d answer it…; -) First impressions are just another name for the masks we wear. Why do we wear them? We wear them because we’ve been trained, conditioned by society’s gatekeepers (our parents, teachers, social, religious,…
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My Most Expensive Personal Item…
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). I’d have to say that it was my Bachelors degree, both in terms of money, personal grief, and family/relationship upheaval. And, in truth, I doubt that it was worth the time, expense, and all the grief that went with it. I…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/17/25
Save Our VA Protest – 10/17/25 Only four of us out walking the line today… Observations from the Ajo entrance to the VA at shift change this morning (about 6:40am – 8:30am: Only two middle fingers greeted us today; only about 60% of those entering responded and much less for those leaving; it appears that…
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Another False Promise
Typical for Tucson, even when there are the occasional raindrop splats on my windshield…; -) Another False Promise gathering clouds anddarkening skiesthunder rolling far and widebut there is no rainjust a little sky-spitaldappling the front walkwaythe promise of rainjust another lie as the sun glows brightlow in the far western skysunbows tint the gray –LE…
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Equanimity … Ha Ha Ha
Equanimity … Ha Ha Ha irritated and depressedequanimity shatteredconstantly under firewith humanity’sin-humanityconstantly in myface whether from the newsor friends ‘helpful’un-asked-forcynicalupdates andreviews destroy my desireto just open my sensesbe here and nowin the desert’smorning sunrolling alongbeside the drySanta Cruz to hell with‘humanity’ andso-called ‘civilization’we’re obviously gettingwhat we deservecommensing ourinevitableend –LE – 9/11/25 PS: The only real…
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Save Our VA Protest At Ajo Gate
We’ve been protesting the attempt to defund and privatize the VA, the current administration’s canceling of the union contracts (except for those of the so-called VA ‘security’ forces). There were six of us this morning. We protest every Friday morning from 7:00 AM to around 8:30 AM for the VA’s morning shift-change. We get a…
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