Cat Love
Nobody loves you and nobody can love you. It’s simply not the case that somebody else can slather love on and around you like butter, and you are incased in it. However, you can love and feel love about another and they can feel the same around the topic of you. So...
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Message to poets
I have nothing to say to you But know that I don’t have to say it because you are already in touch with nothing. Since it seems that nothing is the message in almost every poem —the deep, silent, full nothing that is at the basis of everything— You are not my...
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Today’s alternative news – from the future
The Rainbow Coalition documents 307 rainbow sightings this weekend in the Continental US. Observers note the increased adoption of the cultural practice of kissing whoever is closest to you in case of rainbows, regardless of race, nationality, height, weight,...
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Christian Q and A
The questions and answers at the far end of the 50th high school reunion dinner table with the missionary’s missionary and his wife my schoolmate. Were you an early Christian or did you find it later? Early, both early don’t you remember we were in 8th grade Bible...
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The Lab School, 1968
Gathered to guidance by Hutcheson, Helff, Holmberg, Happ, Harper, Hale, Riechmann, Butzier, Struble, Aldrich, Vanderbeek, Mazula and Mahon, all the names, of teachers, looking out at little faces wondering, what can these children become? All of us, side by side, year...
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In the Now
We are not the opposition We are the origin We are not the future our strength is in the eternal now Our someday will never come by waiting for it but by being it We don't have to wait Until we can be in charge again What we are now is our message and policy We do not...
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Amoeba Contact Improv Video
From about 2012
read moreHigh School Memory #2
The 50 year reunion (Class of 1968) is coming up for my two high schools, Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls (I was there K-10) and Lincoln HS in Des Moines (11th and 12th grade). I'll be attending both reunions, the CF one in June, and the DM one in...
read moreHigh School Memory #1
The 50 year reunion (Class of 1968) is coming up for my two high schools, Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls (I was there K-10) and Lincoln HS in Des Moines (11th and 12th grade). I'll be attending both reunions, the CF one in June, and the DM one in...
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The Grand Canyon, for Risë
It may seem surprising but when I got this house I didn't know it was right next to the Grand Canyon I got here at night, after long travel in other states and other stories and this was to be my last stop It was only some years later that I learned that this house is...
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