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Gleanings From Living Long
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Ecola I walked by the sea-creek side. The wind laughed, the gulls cried. Sweet water lapped on the salt sand between the deep sea and the deep land. Ursula K. LeGuin Years ago, Joseph Campbell told us that the poets would save us. I begin to understand. …
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The word obscene in Greek Tragedies meant that the action took place off scene, behind the curtain, because it was too terrible to actually depict on stage. I've gone back 100 years to shake up the past and improve our lives. Going back farther one is confronted with obscene brutality. Imperialism –…
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So, in my alternate universe… There was no degradation of the earth. Clean Air. Clean Water. No lies, no wars in the oil rich Middle East, no lives lost. The U.S. military would be doing what it is charged with- protecting Democracy, not dismantling it worldwide. Cancer would still be a rare disease, not…
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Happy Valentine's Day!
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There is an interview with the Four Women of "The Squad" on Democracy Now. After reading the transcript of these four diverse women, at a time when I was getting very disheartened about the state of the country and the world, I found HOPE! They are, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley…
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While burning a few things on the deck in the chiminnea, I noticed these caterpillars munching away on the Butterfly Weed. It was over a month ago. There were about 10 or 12 of them, and they decimated that plant. Then yesterday, while leaning over the rail to reach a hanging…
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HELP! What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said, "This is a really bad idea." OR What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…
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"…a soulful ecology is rooted in the feeling that this world is our home and that our responsibility to it comes not from obligation or logic, but from true affection. …As long as the heart is involved, care of the place will follow." Thomas Moore, Care of The Soul …
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Whenever I see a line of pelicans coming along the beach, over the waves, their wingtips just grazing the water, I get a little bit jealous of how simple their life appears to be. It seems that the creatures of this world are better at meeting their daily needs than the oh…
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From the book of poems, BLUE HORSES by Mary Oliver …Bless the words with which I try to say what I see, think, or feel. With gratitude for the grace of the earth. The expected and the exception, both. For all the hours I have been given to be in this world. …
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