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A poem for this splendid day —

Thanks to the Poetry Chaikhana —   This is an exquisite truth: By Hsu Yun (1839 – 1959)   This is an exquisite truth: Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference Is like asking to borrow string when you’ve got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known […]

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Local Action, June 25th: investing in the permaculture part of exopermaculture . . .

I just completed the third of three blog posts that give the flavor of our local neighborhood efforts to increase the number, kinds, and quality of exchanges within our own little corner of the world, in short, our effort to create permanent culture HERE, NOW, within the larger exopermaculture context. The posts tell the stories […]

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DSK up from under? If so, why? Who? How Much, When? Where? Etc.

I find it fascinating that a mere two days after the IMF announces its new head, Christine Lagarde, the case against DSK, who was forced to resign as IMF head, suddenly falls apart. And this, thanks to new information about the accuser by, not DSK’s attorneys, but the prosecutor! What gives? This entire scenario smells […]

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Let's come together NOW

Back in the early ’70s, my friends and I lived in communes; we vowed, in a joking manner, that when we got old we’d return to communes, no matter what happened in between. Our fond visions of sitting in rockers on a big old farm wrap-around porch at dusk, talking, playing music, “hanging out” like […]

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