Al Gore is my Jesus, my Ghandi, my Buddah, my Allah, my last hope.

banality aside
we step
lightly on each others toes
try
and try
to find some light
in each others eye
tread
in each side step
of being
self and selfless
and gather wonder
in our heart’s
discordance
what tune
what
do we do here
find here?
inside of magic
and nothing
is there the same blood?
and what light
in your eye
will mirror me?
take my heart’s hand?
joy
filled
with no second guessing
as dreamers
are
the same blood
of magic and nothing

slender grace
this raindrop
from skyward falls
fills inself on entrance
and exhales
shifts
becomes
finds parts of itself left behind
yet
its focus is
unchanging
once
still
expanding
full
grace gives way
to peace

Birth gives way to the next phase; Peace!

Silence is Golden, Silence is Golden, Silence is Golden: think Peace!

Several days ago I saw a bumper sticker on a car that read “Jeb Bush 2008″.
Today I read this…
http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5379738&nav=2Ifu
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4172759.html
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Semanas semejante suenos
Mi corazon es el mar
Salio con un murmuello
Tranquillo y contento
Y a veces soy una tempestad
Marco el compas con mis ondas
Yo soy nunca resposado
Yo soy nunca durmiente
Semejante suenos
Soy siempre alli
Mi risa es el chaparron que alimenta el mar
Soy un espejo
Brillo con el sol
Y en la noche
Creo estrellas sin suma
Although I have been [...]

Who would have thought baby making was such a big deal?

Wonder what’s going on?

Published on Thursday, July 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Written by Jeff Cohen

And yet another…war…and another….always money for war….but never enough for indispensible things like education, housing, healthcare….when will we wake up Americans?

Is the moon out tonight
Will she be peeking
Through the wisps of Summer’s fog
Watching me
As tears slip
And glitter as they fall
Is the moon out tonight
Or is she sleeping
Not aware in her bed of stars
Wake and watch me!
I’m not dreaming
Far now from where you are
I am like a tireless child
With her night clothes
Tangled tight
The more that the [...]

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At least among many people I know, there will be a mass exodus from doing business with AT&T after reading this article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

There are realms of my life and work that are apparently separate, but they are beginning to merge in unexpected ways. I do not know where it is leading. I remain cautiously optimistic.

Confirmed via: http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/pbs2006.asp
from moveon.org :
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and
PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve
just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS — unbelievably,
starting with programs like “Sesame Street.”
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding
this year. Even worse, [...]

Today at the most war-glorifying, soldier-heroing ceremony ever - the ceremony that repeatedly bellowed the lies of this war of spreading freedom & democracy while protecting our freedom & democracy - we stand in the middle of the parade route and represent the voice of peace. We (including our 77 yr. old elder) are spit on, screamed at, threatened, materials snatched from our hands & ripped up, as we stand on the grounds of peace.

Silence
Wakes me
Finds space in my bed
Between the sheets and my dreams
Snuggles up and pretends it’s been there
For days
I focus
This cloud
This shine
I hear nothing but the memory of dreams
Its logic pours into this reality
Senseless
Slowly
I lose the threads of thought
From then to now
Bound together by
Silence still sleeping

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

“Every time sensitive intelligence is leaked it hurts this country.” Our fearless leader came out on his pulpit today and told us this again.

Boeing-Boeing runs a story about UN World Intellectual Property Organization trying to organize worldwide censorship, ban podcasts and perform some other interesting things sake saving the market positions of current media-monopolies.
Here is an excerpt:
UN cooking podcast-killing treaty
The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization has reconvened to discuss a treaty that will kill innovative Internet audio/video [...]

The vital issue at stake is something called “net neutrality” - it is the concept that that everyone, everywhere, should have free, universal and non-discriminatory access to all the Internet has to offer.

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

There is a currently evolving story of a paradigm shift in the distribution of broadcast audio due to a simple technology that provides easy access to audio files, commonly known as an iPod.

Sometimes it is the small efforts in life that add up to something much larger.

One thing you get clear about in traveling to new epicenters of human activity like Kiev, is that when opportunity is born people come flooding in.

We’re just ahead of our time…

The passing of an amazing soul back to her community. Flags at SF City Hall flown at half-mast.

Amen.
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

green link

When I thought things couldn’t get any worse, they naturally did.

V-Day 2006: Until the Violence Stops. I was given the privilege to be part of the cast of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler, presented on the campus of the University of Utah last night and benefiting programs for the prevention of violence against women and girls here in Utah. Although I have seen the Vagina Monologues 3 or 4 times previously, it was incredibly moving to be part of the cast representing women of different ages from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This experience moved me to post on DS after a long absence.

Half our apartment building burned down on Sunday morning…

let’s get busy people

An incident of road rage in an Aliso Viejo shopping center parking lot, has left me wondering if race was a factor.

Ever seen a ninja dance like Hammer?

- Grandma just called and said you’re supposed to go home.
- She didn’t tell me anything.
- Too bad, she said she doesn’t want you here when she gets back because you’ve been ruining everybody’s lives and eating all our steak.
- I’m not goin’ anywhere, Napoleon.
- Get off my property!
- It’s a free country. I can do whatever I want.
- Get off my property or I’ll call the cops on you.
- Well then do it! Go on!
- Maybe I will, GOSH!

sorry for deleting a few comments. we have been getting hit by some blog spam and while deleting the tons of new ones that occured over the holidayts i mistakenly deleted the last few. Sorry gang.

Score one for intelligence in public education. Today a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled teaching so-called “intelligent design” in the classroom violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. In his ruling, the judge said “Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom” and “We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom.” Are ID proponents the next Dodos?

Please listen to the show from Democracy Now covering Bush’s authorization for NSA to Eavesdrop on Americans without court approval http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/1515212

As the Holiday Season comes upon us and we think of all we are blessed with, we should realize we have more to be thankful for than ever. Normally at this time of year we’d be celebrating just one immaculate conception: that of Jesus Christ. But this year, we get to celebrate not only Baby Jesus, but Baby Cruise as well.

Aw heck. The good ‘ol US of A is flunking…

-eyeseetruth

911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration

Article on 911 commission report card

In the spirit of the holiday I wanted to briefly introduce myself by way of giving thanks…

In Ukraine, one year after the Orange Revolutiuon the battle for the countrys future is still underway. Ukrainians, my dear compatriots, are trying to understand what has changed during this year.
No doubt, Ukrainians have changed a lot. For the first time we have felt responsible for the future of this land. For the first [...]

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday. See you next week!

don’t worry…there’s more…click here

Feels like a Monday to me

I’ve been doing presentations on everyday activism lately, and I’d like to invite us to talk a little about what it means to us. My questions for discussion include, “What does it mean to you to be an activist?”

How about you worry about protecting your own daughter, buddy?

GOOD MORNING!!!

Hope waits for no one
We make it so
Love, lend your heart, give us strength

Peace in our lifetime
Suffering need be no more
Don’t walk alone
There is light, there is light

8,000 geeks converge on Anaheim, CA for BlizzCon

It was in 1859, one hundred and forty-six years ago next month, that Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, and it’s been under attack ever since.

I had to re-post this list. Love DOES make a marriage.

Good F&*@ing Morning

Hi, everybody!
Today I have stumbled on a very interestiong instrument that misght be of interest for members of Driving Socrates community. It is Flock - a Firefox-based Web-browser for active users of Blogs and other social web-services. Besides a really neat interface it seems rather functional, though has some glitches.
Still it has some advantages like [...]

Please welcome the first Edition of the Driving Socrates Comics Page

more bushspeaken

Is there no stopping Bush from trashing this country?

The beauty of reclamation