Sunday, October 8, 2017
That hairy leg thing again...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/instagram-model-hairy-legs-rape-threats-arvida-bystr-m-a7987496.html I have never understood what makes my shaving or not, anyone else's business. And who would disable such an ideal mosquito-early-warning system? It comes down to the centuries-old,...
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Friday, September 29, 2017
The problem of balance
There is a human tendancy to believe that what we see is what is, a set of unconsidered assumptions that things are just what we see, that change is not an essential part of what we see. We look at things, we believe, and don't realize we are looking at process. So, when process asserts itself, we...
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There is a human tendancy to believe that what we see is what is, a set of unconsidered assumptions that things are just what we see, that change is not an essential part of what we see. We look at things, we believe, and don't realize we are looking at process. So, when process asserts itself, we...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
labels and choices
We run into problems when our prrsonal labels become more important than who and what we are ourselves. Pacifist, just like Democrat or Republican or any other such label should not define an actual person. When doctrine becomes dogma, we surrender our abitlity to make our own choices. When such...
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Friday, August 25, 2017
Here is a mystery
...to ponder over a glass of wine. Friends of ours here just got several deliveries, 5 boxes of wine in each delivery, unexpected and unordered. Seems someone used a stolen credit card to order $500 worth of wine and had it sent to this address where they lived in 2014. I am guessing they assumed...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
It used to be illegal...
...to spit in public. That was back when tuberculosis was incurable. But now it is a Manly Thing To Do, apparently. I have never seen a gentleman spit in public. They just don't. They know better than to inflict their precious bodily fluids on the world around them. The men I have seen spit in...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Silence...
Those who have read me here over some time are aware of my experience with CPTSD, and I have also written about how I hear silence--that it means someone is angry with me or disapproving or simply indifferent. Until recently, I never connected the two issues, but it turns out, they are, in fact,...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Being wealthy is not a crime
I don't begrudge people making high salaries: accumulated wealth is a special resource, but it is squandered when those who control it use it only for their own interests. Huge money can solve so many little problems, it can open up possibilities for people overburdened by debt, overwhelmed by...
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
LAMENT a little updated
Lament When the night goes dark, all glowing wild eyes dimmed and dead; When the forest goes silent of song and cry and roar and there is only the creaking of trees moved by the rush of wind; When flowers no longer hum with the dancing bee; When the sky is empty of wings that glitter and crackle or...
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Clouds and the Power Elite
Clouds are glorious, I love clouds seen from the ground, from a plane window, And look, here are all these new clouds to learn Latin names of!...
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