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2.2016

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Like a Mab-Queen,

She hears the birds’ song:

Ten-thousand

Shrill speeches

Over & over,

A loop, repeating.

They are the winged politicians of the wire.

The light; the current; the white witchery 

Pokes her sad wing   

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I dream at night

& sometimes by day

Of marvelous Women:

Joannas & Gillians,

Pollies;

Red-haired Mollies from ages ago...

As they speak

A boy forgets

What a boy must be.

& Then your face, like a Mother’s face,

Stretching your honey-hair out 

Around me

Until I am no longer 

Just dreaming.  

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Let that Sad Song be carried out to Sea...

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"Meditating is seeing into oneself, and it is not the role of the seer to intervene; he does not descend to the level where what is seen takes place. The seer is a higher level in oneself, the lower remains as it is. It is simply there to be seen objectively, as one would stand in front of Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Delights. One may be intrigued, horrified, fascinated, amused and so on, but one is an onlooker to these events and not a participant.”

–Sir Richard Temple, from an intimate personal account of Buddhist meditation in Thailand. This appears as part of his beautiful book The Art of Meditation.

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“When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.” 

― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

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People Just Ain't No Good

BOYCOTT FOREVER 21 Retail company Forever 21 sent this letter to all full time/non-management employees informing them that they will be demoted to part time, they and their families will lose their health and dental benefits, and they will no longer qualify for paid time off. Employees believe the company is punishing them to retaliate against Obamacare. We were asked to share this by one of our fans, and now we are asking you to do the same. Don’t underestimate the power of your SHARE. Two weeks ago, US Uncut was the first place to widely publish McDonald’s now notorious budget, and it went viral across mainstream media. Thank you. MAKE IT VIRAL 

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I am Not my Thoughts

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When touched with a feeling of pain, the ordinary uninstructed person sorrows, grieves, and laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical and mental.

Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows.

–The Buddha

Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow

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i'm learning a meditative practice step by step. it helps. 

life is a colorful circus always surrounding the senses. maybe,  just maybe, I can find an easing way to be, a way to stay here right now and not be caught hook by hook; thought by thought.

"you don't always realize it but you're falling..."

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thank you knappy-head for being a musical opportunist...

… it was the third of June …

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Music Makers and How Rock Festivals Helped Change America...

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~in the black Tangled Hearts of loving ghosts // April 2013

*Sermon: Bobbie Gentry

*Bridge Over Troubled Water: Artist Unknown

*Something On Your Mind: Karen Dalton

*Gambling Blues: John Hammond

*A Ghost Of Myself: Doris Duke

*Prodigal Son: Rolling Stones

*Fox Chase/Right On That Shore: Pete Seeger & Sonny Terry

*The Hills of Greenmore: Steeleye Span

*The King of Carrot Flowers, Parts Two & Three: Neutral Milk Hotel

*That Song About the Midway: Joni Mitchell

*Like a Rolling Stone: Spirit

*Sweet, Sure, Gone: MV & EE

*Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday Blues: John Fahey

*Great Waves: Dirty Three [ft. Cat Power]

*Cancereal: Pat Kilroy

*Down In The Willow Garden: The Everly Brothers

*Dust My Broom: Koerner, Ray & Glove

Download:~in the black Tangled Hearts of loving ghosts // April 2013

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The Penguin Lyric Interpretation: Sara

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She

Color blind

Frantic eyes

Her

Hallway

Aching

She'll never ask him

She knows what he could say

He's just a walker,

And he'll never stop walking away

It's not too soon, he said

You know it's not too soon at all

You might as well be dead

He said, if you're afraid to fall

You missed the boat

You missed the boat (save it)

You missed the boat (save it)

????

I won't, I won't, I won't, I can't

I'm not in love, I couldn't be

I couldn't look you in the face

And tell you that you turn me on

You make my stomach turn

I'm not in love, I'm not as happy...

The last time I saw you,

You were standing in the dark

And with a freezing face

I watched him fall apart

I didn't move him

I knew what he could say

I just started walking

And I'll never stop walking away

It's not too soon, he said

You know it's not too soon at all

You might as well be dead

He said, if you're afraid to fall

I won't, I won't, I can't, no

I'm not in love, I couldn't be

I couldn't look you in the face

And tell you that you turn me on

You make my stomach turn

I'm not in love, no...

I'm not that kind of girl.

4AD Forever!

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One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;  so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. - Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like a disaster. 

Elizabeth Bishop