Insomnia is contagious?

I 'hit' Atlantic Free Press.

Google:` The Republic's Barn is full of Broken Pottery?

Geese are in flight. So, naturally  my mind thinks:` Geese.

The article came up @ Google. I was reminded how goofy the DoJ is ...

The geese heard the barbarians scaling… Read full post »

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver.

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You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and… Read full post »

If worn down from the high-kicking, risque, tumultuous, and disagreeable, tired of nasty dispositions at the Open Salon dance hall ... Google Bag Balm? Bag Balm cures everything. Oh, Try Bag Balm! Bag Balm makes humans dance with a feel for affinity ... Try Bag Balm?… Read full post »

The Humpty Dumpty.

The old skinny whiny?

Louis Carol is known to use "Jabberwocky" ... My Mother has colored the Louis Carol illustration in her book, "Alice in Wonderland." It's  a child and an adult book. My Mom's book is now my book. There are lyric-chants to sing in this… Read full post »

This banter ramble comes from reading today:` The post of Philos777, PJ O' Rourke, Salon's WayLay, the comic illustrator, and GOP Rush Limbaugh post, who is famed as the national example of  filthy radio blabber mouth, vile, and putrid gibbers.

Garbage.

Good Morning.

I accidently 'flopped' upon… Read full post »

Why won't the 'New Post' work?

These buttons? No functioning.

This is my belly button test site.  Read full post »

I can't resist the fun of:`Follow the Feed. I noticed at 8:34 that LillyWell joined Open Salon. The First Voice in Under Milk Wood, was put to the radio voice. Her name was Lilly. apology. Here Voice was pleasant. She was a interesting character in Dylan Thomas's written wish to view… Read full post »

I got a seasonal pre-lent King Hat, and a couple of cupcakes to celebrate past traditions. The King Cake reminds me of the Persian, Rumi. Rumi wrote the poem:`BREADMAKER.

(look it up? I was gone to, but Guest came to visit, and glean the green leaf salads, it's legal) 

Someone said:`If… Read full post »

Children are admonished to study the Scriptures. In Mennonite country there are signs next to mail boxes that may read:`Seek God. Pray together, On the knees Ya grow as lovely trees. I saw Moses kissing Freaky Troll. Jesus  believed in kissing Mary's lips, passionately.  Norwonk won't flunk… Read full post »

This is not about John Updike holding an infant?  

I'd rather think aloud about that great You-Tube that (who) [?] was showed last week? John Updike was holding a baby infant. I have a 6- week old grandson. I was holding Louis Arthur James this morning. John Updike knew Fear.… Read full post »

I wish I remained down in the farm valley. The post by freedomisgreen today has my mind wondering too. Respectfully, the blogger is a voice for NORML Foundation. Me freedomisgreen broadcast his voice. freedomisgreen does radio productions. Great.

I tried to find in literature these paraphrased words:… Read full post »

July 1964, Paris *

President Ho Chi Minh had led a Vietnamese delegation to France to negotiate national independence and venues for a unified North and South Vietnam. At a press conference in the Royal Monceau's reception room on the River Seine, he was being heckled by a journalist.

"Mr. President,… Read full post »

How can a Bard Stay Silent? Palatine Anthology. From the 10th century.

Winter storms have vanished from the sky. Flowery springtime's purple season smiles. Dark earth is garlanded with verdant grass and plants are burgeoning with leafy tresses.

Drinking the soft dew of the nurturing dawn, meadows lau… Read full post »

This has a fancy hexameter. It's elegiac. A cicada couplet.

Noisy Cicada .

Noisy cicada, drunk with drops of dew, 

wastelands explode with melody through you

strumming, on leaf tips, with your sawtoothed shin

tunes on a cithara of swarthy skin.

Makes the tree-nymphs rejoice, friend, if you can,… Read full post »

But, you will need to google Cold Mountain? The poem is a great verbal meal on Fat Tuesdays. 

The Homeric Hymn:`To Earth Mother of All, is homemade porridge? Better. O Yummy. 

It's already Lent? I did not know that each Tuesday @ Open Salon there was the mendicants lucky day. Free… Read full post »

Today I 'hit' Yahoo. I 'punched' James Surkamp, It Don't Mean Nothing, Art James. This appeared at the top of Google:`www.nyx.net/~kbilton/dontmeannothing.htm

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I wanted to blog on the bog-orange. It's a old word for Potatoes. Or, the Irish fruit. Peculiarly, the phrase has been applied to Potatoes.… Read full post »

Alan of Lille entered the abbey of Citeaux, France. Little was ever known about him until after his death in 1203, he wrote:`The Complaint of Nature & This:`* All of Creation, Like a Book. I think it's sobering, and Beautiful.

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All of creation, like a book,

pictures to us, with… Read full post »

I certain date, February 10th, 1970, can stick out in my memory. Memories can be like a sore mental thumb. For the last several days, Salon's war focus has been about PTSD. War sure ain't any fun. This ain't a personal gripe. It's a necessity that painful topics are discussed. And… Read full post »

Blog Posting # 2.

Friends stopped over today. It's spread horse manure (gold) and sawdust compost time. The blueberries get a good mulching. The bed that is applied serves as retention of nutrient and moisture. It's a well composted batch, so no worry. Blueberries will not ripen as blue, pew. Yummy.… Read full post »

In the 10th century Taira no Kanemori penned this:'

Alas! the blush upon my cheeks, 

Conceal it as I may,

Proclaims to all that that I'm in love,

Till people smile and say-

'Where are thy thoughts today?'

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The Kentucky farmer, poet, and social critic Wendell Berry penned this:`

In… Read full post »