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Been a teacher (literature, poetry, theater, the social studies) mostly secondary (public and private) but also poverty and other government projects (back when we believed the state was useful, even fun, as a gathering place) and in psychiatric work. Lately ascended into elementary and special education. Quite a few spiritual adventures last 30 years (Siddhi, Tibetan, wizard stuff, and always Christ) lately given over to a garden in an ancient creekbed, encouraging 2 neglected apple trees, and harboring endangered creatures (Monarch butterflies, bluebirds, and a redheaded woodpecker looking for romance) in our wild meadows and oak woods. Family man who dances.

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Elyse Under Surveillance

The photo is of 2 frescoes entitled "Hunger" and "Soldiers" painted by Luis Quintanilla in 1939, newly restored and on permanent display at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain.&...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:53:00 PST

FactCheck Checks Itself In...And Out

..> Great doubt results in great enlightenment, small doubt results in small enlightenment, no doubt results in no enlightenment. ---Yuan-Hsien A hundred thousand worlds are flowers in the sky. A ...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:31:00 PST

"Black Waters, Black Waters Run Down Through The Land"

Nobody sees a flower---really---it is so small it takes time---we haven't time---and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. ---Georgia O'Keeffe Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existe...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

This Is Worse Than Viet Nam

People in the West are always getting ready to live.    ---Chinese proverb If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall.  Definitely don't sit still.    ---...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:34:00 PST

Exactly How Bush Spends Your Money

President Bush speaks at a meeting of the Associated General Contractors of America on May 2, 2007 in Washington, DC. Photo: Wong/Getty As a man is, so he sees.    ---William Blake There i...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:56:00 PST

American History: The Bush Family Legacy

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Portrait of Napoléon on the Imperial Throne. 1806.Oil on canvas. Musée de l'Armée, Paris, France. You do not need to leave your room.  Remain sitting at your table...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

Heavy With Child

Karl Brulloff. Italian Woman Heavy with a Child Examining a Shirt and her Husband Making a Cradle. 1831. Watercolour on cardboard. Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere;    Let us ta...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:53:00 PST

America The Vindictive

In the scent of plum blossoms, Ah! the sun appears--- the mountain path. ---Basho When we have seen Reality, there is not a grain of dust which has not a sublime meaning. ---J. Vanderleeuw It is like ...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:53:00 PST

A Year Without Tagliabue

All of us are watchers--- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway---but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.    ---Peter M. Leschak You ask why I liv...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:31:00 PST

The Great American Songbook

On the set of Shall We Dance, 1936, are dance director Hermes Pan, Fred Astaire, director Mark Sandrich, Ginger Rogers, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and musical director Nathaniel Shilkret. Come ba...
Posted by jazzoLOG on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:44:00 PST