a fine and tasty beetle

Vincent van Gogh. The Sower. 1888.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

A field of alfalfa that goes on until Monday

A field with no beginning and no end

And somewhere deep within the alfalfa

A circle of masked women intone an ancient chant

The elements are empowered here

Far from the useless egos of the men

Heavy cloud cover at first

Then the sun breaks through

And hearts are lifted

The women go silent

A red tail hawk circles above

Hunting

James Lee Jobe

Quicksliver Messenger Service - What About Me

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

Link: One Cup of Chai, a poem by Preeti Vangani

A field with no beginning and no end
And somewhere deep within the alfalfa
A circle of masked women intone an ancient chant
The elements are empowered here
Far from the useless egos of the men
Heavy cloud cover at first
Then the sun breaks through
And hearts are lifted
The women go silent
A red tail hawk circles above
Hunting

James Lee Jobe

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. 

Howard Zinn

The silence after the fires burn out
California made of ashes and loss
Still - some grasslands survive
Still - the sound of a western meadowlark
Celebrating a fine and tasty beetle

James Lee Jobe

The future is an illusion, the past is now a dream, and the only reality we have access to is the present.

Mark Coleman

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