I don't know about the latest masturbation theories of ducks, geese, poodles, and human beings. I guess 'theoretically' it may be possible to me married to a quack with a paid staff from Monsanto and use children, flowers, and green grass?

Garbage!

Toxic dump!

Nasty cracker!

Parrot ate baloney?

Maybe… Read full post »

This is a personal message to Jebbie @ Salon.

Jebbie placed a comment on Glenn Greenwald.

I never comment on any of the www.Salon.com.

Two names I used was:`bebop-o and GoodCelery! 

Thanks Jebbie.

I got banned.

I call it`barns.

O so- heehaw

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Pedinska is still feisty and She grows banana… Read full post »

Sweet, sweet is the greeting of the eyes,

And sweet is the voice in its greeting,

When adieus have grown old and goodbyes

Fade away where old Time is retreating.

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Warm the nerve of a welcoming hand,

And earnest a kiss on the brow,

When we meet over sea and… Read full post »

"Give me liberty, or give me death."

"These are the times that try men's [and Ladies] souls."

"I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country."

"Don't fire [postal clerk] till you see the whites of their eyes."

"I can't tell a lie."

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What do… Read full post »

" Pluribus Unum"

Having declared independence, the Continental Congress needed an emblem for the new nation. I know it is not July 4. But, Congress named John Adams. Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson --- three of the five men who were assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence --- to des… Read full post »

Here where the world is being made,

No human hand required,

A man may come, somewhat afraid

Always, and somewhat tired.`

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For he comes ignorant and alone

From work and worry of

A human place, in soul and bone

The ache of human love;

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He may come and be… Read full post »

Sabbath 2001. - Wendell Berry.

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The wind of the fall is here,

It is everywhere. It moves.

Every leaf of every tree

It is the only motion

of the river. Green

leaves grow weary

of their color.

Now evening too is in the air.

The bright hawk of the day… Read full post »

RYUHO died in September, 1669. 

Now I understand how

the third vrse of moon and flowers

is interwoven. -written by poet Ryuho. 

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Ryuho participated  in a community style of poetry that was popular during his generation. Sometimes two to thirty or more people took a part. There can be… Read full post »

On September 1, 1987 S. Brian Wilson was at Concord Weapon Munition storage depot. S Brian Wilson was a U.S. Air Force captain in Vietnam and saw aerial bombing aftermath. He studied at DC's American University and practiced law, managed a dairy farm, and participated in many efforts to make the… Read full post »

Wendell Berry has a new book that's out now? September 1, 2009. The inspiring Title:`

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"Bringing It To The Table." -

On Farming And Food.

Introduction by Michael Pollan.

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Yesterday, I quickly browsed the book. Wendell Berry has been farming and writing with purity of food in… Read full post »

My Serious question? What does this mean? Is this a Lucky duck normal popup?

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Sympatico? "Your certificate to the server has expired. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be Sympatico  . -link.// which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to… Read full post »

'The Wall Street Journal' for May 12, 1992, carried an article by staff reporter R. Gustav Niebuhr about people who claimed they were helped by the so-called "guardian angels" and the effect those personal experiences has upon their individual lives. Interesting. I say so.

This calls attention to the… Read full post »

Do Not Be Ashamed. - Wendell Berry.

You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.

It will be clear to you suddenly that you were… Read full post »

spoof? reality. I blame You-Tube. Renaissance Lady offered a wild treat.

I've been browsing the book "Paint Made Flesh." This week, I saw the exhibit at the Phillips Collection in DC. The book is also fascinating. It's a collection of artist from around the world, mostly the art pieces are oils… Read full post »

I use to be into some serious reading of the Russian writer Aleksandra I. Solzhenitsyn and Leo Tolstoy. Both wrote about the unfair prisons systems, Horrible Justice, and the working class peasants. In the unusual book "Resurrection," you can't help but pause to reflect deeply. I'm not gonna go there… Read full post »

What other people express often sets me off on a personal though journey. 

I may have a dose of blogger, Life is Good's, insomnia? It's hot and muggy. The skin is itchy. I read Laura Miller's Salon article titled. `How the `60s "creative revolution" crushed the "Mad Man." I can't comment… Read full post »

Breakfast is served every weekday between 6:30 and 8:00. Food is fresh, whole grains, prime meats, fruits, and vegetables. Professionally trained chefs cook. cool!

Support services for the needy are between 6:30-9:45AM, and on Wednesday from 12-to-2:PM during the weekly Cafe. Services are:`

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Yes. Welcome!

I best shush up. Ya see al kinds of great folk (Hicks) in the farm markets. Today was a Farmer Market Day. Ya see folk with curly nasal hair, smelly underarm pit-hairs, the corn-stalks dread-lock-curl hairs, a former fed-prosecuting defense attorneys, a former CIA,  and other discr… Read full post »

You read a few poems by Wendell Berry on:` The Prairie Home Companion a few years ago. I loved that show the night you were Garrison K.'s Special Guest.

I love this quote:` 

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"The Care of the Earth is our  most ancient

and most worthy, and after all our most… Read full post »

Elizabeth M. Tayer wrote about August:`

August rushes by like desert

rainfall

A flood of frenzied upheaves,

Expected,

But, still catching me

Unprepared

Like a matchflame

Bursting in the scene

Heat and haze of crimson

Susets

Like a dream

of Moon and dark barely

Recalled

A moment

Shadows caught in a… Read full post »

This is always good advice. Life is a stage. All self-respecting drama students read this. It's advice to the Players in Life. Amazing. how modern this advice is to all humanity. The earlier post reminded me. O share it ...

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as pronounced it to… Read full post »

The Culinary Artist and the Moment of Truth.

In concentrating to this point on the virtues of host and guest, we have sure overlooked the people whom the dinner  party list forgot to invite. Who? Folks,  such as:`RicTresa.

The cooks? The many ones who are the real great common folk. Those… Read full post »

Sunday in the restroom at the Shell Oil Company lavatory, new Open Salon readers (great newbies are here) file former complaints because the sounds coming from the CEO's bath & wash stall:` sounds were groans, like those erie war moans.

Why Just Ask The Donkey. Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (Sufi 1… Read full post »

Reverence For Life.

Aware of the sufferings caused by the destruction of life, I vow to cultivate compassion and learn ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in… Read full post »

OH, silent glory of the summer day!

How, then, we watched with glad and indolent eyes

The white-sailed ships dream on their shining way,

Till, fading, they were mingled with the skies, and have we not watched her, too, on nights that steep  the soul in peace of moonlight, softy move… Read full post »