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Monthly Archives: July 2003
Choosing Your Battles
When the middle of the road is muddy slick so that the vehicles of truth get mired, ‘Tis then the vultures gather there to pick among the helpless and the uninspired. The wheels of progress spin but cannot grab or … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged balance, battles, daily poems, partisanship, poetry by request, sonnet, war
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Watergate and Lao Tzu
I remember being 8 years old and watching every minute of the Watergate hearings on television. Watching the PBS special on the 30th Anniversary of the Destruction of the Innocence of the Republic, or rather, the Watergate scandal (which Kurt … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged democracy, governments, integrity, Kurt Vonnegut, Lao Tzu, Watergate
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For Allen Ginsberg
I can hear you breathing, America Will you catch up with me Dangling your embittered and jealous umbilicus Asking Who among you when your child asks for bread Will hand him a grenade? It’s not some dark sin that hides … Continue reading
The Parable of the Sower
Sometimes, I think that I have borne a lot of resentment, and fought against the world believing to lead with your fist uncurled meant weakness, and what you deserved, you got. I lived as if my troubles were the most … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged adulthood, childhood, daily poems, learning, maturity, parables, paradox
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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
It is sometimes quite odd the things that happen when you are on a journey of self-discovery. Take this weekend, for example. I was sitting around, minding my own business, meditating and updating various computer things, and the telephone rang. … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged coincidence, conversations, Litzenbergs, names, self-similarity
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Seed Thought on Wealth
Money is not wealth. Wealth is the accomplished technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodate all growful needs of life. Money is only an expediency-adopted means of interexchanging disparately sized, nonequatable items of real wealth. — R. Buckminister Fuller, … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged achievement, Buckminister Fuller, Critical Path, money, success, wealth
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Suggestion for Philip Morris
I have been a smoker for a long time. You know, I’ve been watching these Philip Morris legislation required commercials advocating parental communication as the method for preventing children from smoking…and I’ve been thinking…while it is necessary for parents to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, education, parenting, Philip Morris, PSA, public service, smoking
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