Tag: ShortStory
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Killing Us Slower Than Guns
Artists of the time were warning us of the toxic wasteland we were creating even back when Motown and pysodelic music were the rage, when Disco was beginning its rise. This song aired in 1970. Slower Than Gunsby Iron Butterfly Can you feel the manmade mistAs it starts to twist your lungs?Slower than guns Breathe…
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Warmshowers – 3/3 – A Memoir Memory
The Erie Canal Towpath We do miss the lovely trails around our former home in Northern Ohio. Our favorite was the canal towpath which ran from Lake Erie in Cleveland to Akron (a distance of about 30 miles) This continuous strip of land was quite narrow in places and mostly followed the Erie Canal through…
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Warmshowers – 2/3 – A Memoir Memory
Our Houseguests Arrived As we waited for our guests to arrive, the sky darkened ominously and I tried to figure out if it was a wiser decision to ask three total strangers to sleep in our house, or allow them to possibly drown if our backyard flooded. Ultimately, I reminded myself that ax murderers hardly…
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Warmshowers – 1/3 – A Memoir Memory
Warmshowers This section was written by Tina. It happened a couple of years after I retired and moved to Ashland. Warmshowers is an international group that gives travelers (usually cross-country bicyclists) a place to stay for a night or two at no charge. They have an app that allows you to contact individuals who are…
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Kennedy Lake Park Tucson
Kennedy Lake Park Tucson Mountains and treesMirrored in the water whileDucks and crows forage –LE – 7/2/24
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Wild Thing
Wild Thingby The Troggs Wild thingWild thingWild thingYou make my heart singYou make everything groovyWild thing Wild thing, I think I love youBut I wanna know for sureSo come on, hold me tightI love you Wild thingWild thingWild thingYou make my heart singYou make everything groovyWild thing Wild thing, I think you move meBut I…
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4th of July Holiday
In remembrance of what this day represents… and thoroughly considering our current existential outcome probabilities. A safe and happy holiday to any privileged enough to have had wage-slave time off to enjoy family, friends, a little leisure, and of course, your fireworks… Today is a celebration of our liberation from the biggest military juggernaut of…
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Cognitive Dissonance – A Definition
Cognitive Dissonance hallmark of humanityoligarchs marching usto extinction’s precipice claiming we’re all familybut they, the patri and matriarchsbestow blessings only on those who concedekiss the ass, boot, and ringpain and poverty for the rest decry the inevitable backlashclimate, human/animal rights activistsattacking our fascist gatekeepers as our mother, Earth, rapidly declinesher blood, oceans, lakes, and steamsturned…
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Achievement vs Antisipation
Anticipation and Achievement Let’s be honest. The highs of anticipation and expectation are the best anyone will get out of life, not to mention death. No experience, event, action, or consequence ever lives up to its expectation, especially on the positive side, not work or love, nor physical, mental, or spiritual pleasures of any kind.…
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Guilt
Guilt, like ‘sin’, is the invention of society, of the human mind. It is NOT spiritual truth nor mandated by a god, whatever you perceive that god to be… merely human inventions, just like the rest of human society. –LE Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced…
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