Stephen Dunn Poem... |
Wild The year I owned a motorcycle and split the airin southern Spain, and could smell the orangesin the orange groves as I passed themoutside of Seville, I understoodI'd been riding too long in cars,...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:44:00 GMT |
Walk-a-bout Dreams |
The ability to do something, just because I feel like it.To trust my instincts, taking myself by surprise.Snatching a bit of unscheduled pleasure, from the clutches of a regimented life.Not to ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:57:00 GMT |
"So What?"... from the Huffington Post |
"So what?' said the man in charge of the free world, when asked about whether or not Al-Qaeda was in Iraq before we were. So what? Huh? Were chillier, crueler, more cavalier words ever spoken? Somehow...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:27:00 GMT |
It takes each of us to make a difference for all of us. |
As the nation works to overcome that [achievement] gap, we believe it is critical to keep the Deweyan view of education firmly in mind. Research has repeatedly shown that children from disadvantaged c...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:49:00 GMT |
When I ride... I ride. |
My bike and I take to the road.Turning as day breaks toward the west,I watch as the moon sets over rolling Kansas hills.Behind me, through the mist and over my shoulder,the sun rises large a...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:44:00 GMT |
Rant... Adapted from a Maureen Dowd Column. |
GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that's what they are.
Sarah Palin didn't say "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said "Thanks."
Obama was raised by a single mother on ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:24:00 GMT |
Sigh... |
Roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every mo...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:44:00 GMT |
Welcome to the Double Standard Theater. |
From the Washington Post
"But the bigger reason is that no one -- not the media, not the campaign professionals, not the voters -- cares enough about lying."
Not so, millions of voters DO care... W...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:24:00 GMT |
Is there another word for "stretching the truth?" |
Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WriterWed Sept. 3rd.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issu...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:18:00 GMT |
Piddle Twiddle and Resolve... |
What is the mind like if it's not occupied with plans and schemes, and fears that the plans and schemes will fail? What if your unexamined beliefs were to fall away and you were to live without t...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:51:00 GMT |
