Tag: ShortStory
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Education Is Subversive
Education Is Subversive Why do you think authoritarians hate it so much? Do everything in their substantial powersTo dominateUniversity facultiesAdministratorsCurriculums Silence the IntellectualsThe storytellersThe philosophersThe poetsThe artists of all stripes? It’s because educationAnd by extension critical thinking IS Subversive! At least to the AuthoritarianAgenda… –LE – 6/28/25\ PS: Apparently, only the ruling ‘elites’ (in their…
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Perception
Perception All sentience reliesOn perceptions forSurvival But in the case of humansIt’s mostly mis-perceptionsEven to those from the sameFamilies and communities There are theUnconsciousAssumptionsPrejudicesAnd fantasiesBased on the ‘invisible’HormonesPheromones And let’s not forgetIndoctrination andConditioning Even with millions ofDictionaries and thesauriHumans mis-perceiveMore often than notBoth intentionallyAnd not. The thread of human historySeems a continuousStitching of mis-perceptionsSince our…
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Last Weekend In June – Ride’n Rant
End of June Weekend – Morning Ride 79 degreesAt a quarter to sevenIn the AM90 by the timeWe get back Bright sunNo cloudsExcept a few dotsOver the mountains Skinks scurrying inAnd across the pathRight and leftZigzagging As a turkey vultureSurveys the pickin’sFrom the highest branchOf a dead old witch-treeOff to my far right I count…
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Thursday Morning Ride – Late June
A Late June Thursday Morning Ride Blue skies to the southWhile the blue of the northIs marbled with white and theOccasional brushstroke-tipOf light gray Rust colored mountainsVeiled in the morning mistsBoundaries of the Tucson basin While fat skinks and prairie dogsSkitter to and fro across the pathNo snakes or other fauna yetBut for the occasional…
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A More Sustainable Lifestyle?
Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? What does that even mean in this age of powerlessness and poverty for the many and unconscionable wealth and power for a psychopathic few; of uncertainty, exploitation, and existential dispair? This prompt (to me) smacks of naive denialism. But to attempt…
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The Air That I Breath
The Air That I Breatheby Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood – performed by The Hollies, originally in 1974 If I could make a wishI think I’d passCan’t think of anything I needNo cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no soundNothing to eat, no books to read Making love with youHas left me peaceful, warm, and tiredWhat…
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Memoir Memory — Family Tragedy In 1983
Family Tragedy In 1983 An older post, but still relevant… Spirit VS Form – A Poor Life VS No Life I’m filled withRage and griefO’r the lossOf my new niece A summer breezeThe winter chillA life of easeOr a job that kills The joy of loveThe pain of lossThe will to liveAnd its cost The…
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Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Hey, diddle, diddleThe cat and fiddle… So did the cat, the cow, or the little dog run away with the spoon? I guess you’ll have to recite the whole nursery rhyme to remember…; -) –LE – 6/23/25
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Self Care?
How do you practice self-care? Self Care? Well, I started to ‘self-care’ early on in life, though, to my knowledge, no one called it that then. I was pretty much a ‘loner’ in school from elementary on. Since I didn’t ‘hang out’ with friends (or really have any), wasn’t in any social clubs, wasn’t on…
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Memoir Addendum – On Listening
When I try to explain this to people, they usually don’t listen, and I suspect, don’t really care. They are more interested in bulldozing their own personal perspectives through, looking for acquiescence, and not interested in anything that might differ. On Listening And Hopefully Understanding There’s a trick to audio learning. I didn’t invent it,…
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