Questions # 1.

- Blackhead.

Some spots grow in a form of a ugly pit in the skin from which hair follicles grow. The follicles get blogged (blocked)  by a plug of natural skin oil or the bad grease. This collects dirt and looks dark. The skin gets a buildup of… Read full post »

I woke up today and read Henry's Blog. His question to me seared deep. I rang a bell, lit a Vietnamese incense  stick, and am responding to good 'ole Henry here. Henry is a light at the tip of a candle in these days of Dark Times.

War memories are within… Read full post »

I remember browsing a bible in a used book store. Almost the entire book of the eloquent Elizabethan, vernacular - in The Book of  Genesis, Psalms, Proverbs etc., and the synoptic gospels - in the black covered bible - was highlighted in the color pink.

Pink. 

Code Pink. 

I have no… Read full post »

Tai means teacher.

Thich Nhat Hanh suggest that when a person is in preparation to leave the body, that the person, even if they are bedridden, and in a coma ... you/me should speak to them. Communication is possible. She will hear you, says Tai. It is to grieve the loss.… Read full post »

The classic:`Serenity Prayer.

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God grant me the Serenity to 

accept the things I cannot change,

the courage o change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Living one day at a time; 

enjoying one moment at a time;

accepting the hardship as

the pathways to… Read full post »

In The Wind Are Murmuring.

In the wind are murmuring,

mother, the leaves;

in their shade to the sound of

their rustling, I sleep.

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A mild wind is blowin

delightfully soft 

and dreamily moving

the ship of my thoughts;

such bliss has it brought

that it seems to… Read full post »

Visualize two people sitting on a bench in a spring garden. She is holding an open book that he has handed her to read. Flowers, a sitting bench, a Beautiful Nature is enveloping the two.

He mentions he's fretted to near death. He explains. I was born with a great aching… Read full post »

Back during the days when there were local undertakers, multitudes of coffins were made at home. I wanted to build my Mother's a homemade coffin when I knew Mom was about to depart the terrestrial realm of this Earth.

The coffin was wild cherry, lined with soft cotton, lace, and the… Read full post »

Cats are viewed as sensualist, materialist, hedonistic, and above all else a voluptuary hunter. Cats are steely-eyed assassins. The cat don't need to be fed!

Cats eat mice, chipmunks, 'Alpo' and you can see Cat @ 'Arby's' licking goat milk from the saucer.

In Egypt, not long after  the cat… Read full post »

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Hay for the  Horses. - Gary Snyder.

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He had driven half the night

From far down San Joaquin

Through Mariposa, up the

Dangerous Mountain roads,

And pulled in at eight a.m.

With his big truckload of hay

behind the barn.

With winch and ropes and hooks

We stacked… Read full post »

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In order to be a good doctor a person must have a good character;

and that is to say, whatever weakness and foibles they may have,

s/he must love fellow human beings in the concrete and desire

the other human being'`good before their own. - W. H. Auden

-… Read full post »

These comments were deleted. I ask why?

Maybe this will be periodically updated?

If people act "nasty" and delete anymore?

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Amy MD's mournful:`Expert on everything:`Women with tears and a tissue.

However. When I rewrite what was deleted? I can't seem to resist the old time goad poking!  It's to… Read full post »

Autumn ~ Carol L. Riser.

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Autumn:`

When the trees their summer

splendor

Change to raiment 

Red and Gold,

When the summer moon

Turns mellow, 

And the nights are cold;

When the squirrels hide

Their acorns,

And the woodchucks

disappear;

We know that it is Autumn.

Loveliest,

Season of… Read full post »

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test.

yea. 

will it send?

no get on front feed?

no windy and  crescent moon!

beautiful. it looks like a smile! 

This was taken from Bernie.

Ann. Fresh Farm Markets. 

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from `As You Like It. - W. S. 

Blow,  blow, thou winter wind.

Thou art is… Read full post »

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Uncle Ho was a simple dressed man. He was viewed as unusual and his demeanor was somber. He studied in the United States and Europe and conveyed self-confidence. Vietnam and China had been enemies for 2,000 years. Uncle Ho spoke perfect Chinese.

Uncle Ho was locked in iron chains,… Read full post »

There is so much to read etc.,

I saw the river. Wendell Berry.

I  often visit a`Potomac  River.

One wish. We could comment.

Often, one is 'touched' deeply.

I need to do a few chores. Etc.,

I though of this. It's to whoever.

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In memory:`Denise Levertov

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Is this… Read full post »

~ Beautiful. That was ... Beautiful beyond mere words. If I could ... I will Plant. I'l open a pack of flower seeds. ` My PM email and gadget acts odd. A motor in a mechanical contraption.… Read full post »

This is a brief note that I wrote while in Viet Nam.

I'm rummaging through old musty shoebox stuff. 

There was zilch response to this. It was returned.

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setting:`

a jungle.

GI sat on a pot.

a pot hat was a pew.

the steel pot was a hat.

He… Read full post »

Thankfulness.  - Branches of Thought. Verse in Four Seasons. - John E. Moss

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Thankfulness.

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In the soft morning light life awakens,

Cautiously and with practiced determination,

Gathering strength, stretching out,

To touch the messenger of hope for the new day.

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What great joy crowds out the d… Read full post »

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MORNING

Every morning the sun, rising over the wall,

Beams on the gate, but the gate is not yet open.

Inside, the prison lingers a gloomy pall,

But we know that outside the sun has risen.

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EVENING SCENERY

A rose blossoms, and then fades.

It blooms and withers heedlessly.… Read full post »

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Do Not  Be Ashamed. by 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… Read full post »

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Emergency Room Visit. - Robert H. Deluty.

Her octogenarian father-

Remarkably fit, handsome,

Stubborn and vain-

Drives himself to the ER

Convinced he has pneumonia.

After turning in his paperwork,

He overhears two nurses

Whispering that he looks

More like 56 than 86.

Deeply offended,

He roars at th… Read full post »

The *below comment* was deleted from AmyTuteurMD's favorite blog. You call yourself a healing physician?

AmyTuteurMD strives to heal people?

AmyTeuterMD may be the White House's next Surgeon General, huh? Oops.

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Why delete?

madcelt? There are no stupid questions

I hope this isn't deleted.… Read full post »