tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28240267435311312782024-03-05T03:30:28.836-08:00Sweet HeatSome heat you want... cause it's sweet... and it feels good...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-63116019617414146432011-03-30T17:21:00.001-07:002011-03-30T17:21:33.282-07:00Flare by Mary Oliver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4gr0pG4pzU5LdIIZ95dZzKs0ShHfrKVkCgPLb7FR17rfw9NhIxsmBjtKsQn8Un3UamC1NjeGcy7Nt0GxhPyjTxurm9ARAcwNmdfPEgz0URXOVRcAEW6mLZlmdzSvWmU-H9BRxTNobZcI/s1600/barn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4gr0pG4pzU5LdIIZ95dZzKs0ShHfrKVkCgPLb7FR17rfw9NhIxsmBjtKsQn8Un3UamC1NjeGcy7Nt0GxhPyjTxurm9ARAcwNmdfPEgz0URXOVRcAEW6mLZlmdzSvWmU-H9BRxTNobZcI/s400/barn.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
My girlfriend sent me this poem today...<br />
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<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Welcome to this silly, comforting poem.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is not the sunrise,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">which is a red rinse,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">which is flaring all over the eastern sky;</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">it is not the rain falling out of the purse of God;</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">it is not the blue helmet of the sky afterward, </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">or the trees, or the beetle burrowing into the earth; </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">it is not the mockingbird who, in his own cadence, </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">will go on sizzling and clapping </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">from the branches of the catalpa that are thick with blossoms,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> that are billowing and shining,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> that are shaking in the wind.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">You still recall, sometimes, the old barn on your great-grandfather's</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">farm, a place you visited once, and went into, all alone, while the grownups</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">sat and talked in the house.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was empty, or almost. Wisps of hay covered the floor, and some</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">wasps sang at the windows, and maybe there was a strange fluttering bird</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">high above, disturbed, hoo-ing a little and staring down from a messy ledge</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">with wild, binocular eyes.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mostly though, it was restful and secret, the roof high up and arched,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">the boards unpainted and plain.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">You could have stayed there forever, a small child in a corner, on the</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">last raft of hay, dazzled by so much space that seemed empty, but wasn't.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then -- you still remember -- you felt the rap of of hunger -- it was noon --</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and you turned from that twilight dream and hurried back to the house,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">where the table was set, where an uncle patted you on the shoulder for</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">welcome, and there was your place at the table.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nothing lasts.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There is a graveyard where everything I am talking about is,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">now.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I stood there once, on the green grass, scattering flowers.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">4.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nothing is so delicate or so finely hinged as the wings</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">of the green moth</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">against the lantern</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">against its heat</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">against the beak of the crow</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in the early morning.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yet the moth has trim, and feistiness, and not a drop</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> of self pity.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Not in this world.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My mother</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">was the blue wisteria,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my mother</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">was the mossy stream out behind the house,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">my mother, </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">alas, alas,</span></i></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">did not always love her life,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">heavier than iron it was</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> as she carried it in her arms, from room to room,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">oh, unforgettable!</span></i></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I bury her</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in a box</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">in the earth</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and turn away.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My father</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">was a demon of frustrated dreams,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">was a breaker of trust,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">was a poor, thin boy with bad luck.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">He followed God, there being no one else</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">he could talk to;</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">he swaggered before God, there being no one else</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">who would listen.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Listen</span></i></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">this was his life.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I bury it in the earth.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I sweep the closets.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I leave the house.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">6.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I mention them now,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will not mention them again.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is not lack of love</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">nor lack of sorrow.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But the iron thing they carried, I will not carry.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I give them -- one, two, three, our -- kiss of courtesy,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> of sweet thanks,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">of anger, of good luck in the deep earth.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">May they sleep well. May they soften.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I will not give them the kiss of complicity.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will not give them the responsibility for my life.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">7.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Did you know that the ant has a tongue </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">with which to gather in all that it can be</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">of sweetness?</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Did you know that?</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">8.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The poem is not the world.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is not even the first page of the world.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But the poem wants to flower, like a flower.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It knows that much.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It wants to open itself,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">like the door of a little temple, </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">so that you might step inside and be cooled and refreshed,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and less yourself than part of everything.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">9.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The voice of the child crying out of the mouth of the</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> grown woman</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">is a misery and a disappointment.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The voice of a child howling out of the tall, bearded, </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> muscular man</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">is a misery, and a terror.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">10.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Therefore, tell me:</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">what will engage you?</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What will open the dark fields of your mind,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> like a lover</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> at first touching?</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Anyway,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">there was no barn.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">No child in the barn.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">No uncle no table no kitchen.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Only a long lovely field full of bobolinks.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">the orderliness of the world. Notice</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">something you have never noticed before,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricket</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb. </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">shaking the water-sparks from its wings.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let grief be your sister, she will whether or no.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also,</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> like the diligent leaves.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and the responsibilities of your life.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the glare of your mind, be modest.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Live with the beetle, and the wind.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the dark bread of the poem.</span></i></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is the dark and nourishing bread of the poem.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-68890146841409554612011-03-09T18:31:00.000-08:002011-03-09T18:31:33.673-08:00Lent today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MRFKlInkSfix0M2MdTAp0wws4Jb8S9eqXWq4TiXySqq8CEzd2WXUZV5-XKKVXb-OuArfNJ16lk69iTqo9fDcVE_4llyqwveZtbmace7Z5q5J5CSAtAhD_mQSPj7E1CV6vGqVYd2pAZk/s1600/lent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MRFKlInkSfix0M2MdTAp0wws4Jb8S9eqXWq4TiXySqq8CEzd2WXUZV5-XKKVXb-OuArfNJ16lk69iTqo9fDcVE_4llyqwveZtbmace7Z5q5J5CSAtAhD_mQSPj7E1CV6vGqVYd2pAZk/s1600/lent.jpg" /></a></div>[<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sainz/2774635559/">linky</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-32298680122117862542010-12-04T15:06:00.000-08:002010-12-04T15:06:39.487-08:00Sassing around!!!<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bRdKp_r-sPY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bRdKp_r-sPY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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Hi everybody!!!!! Almost a NEW YEAR!!!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-80570624373754191372010-11-22T12:25:00.000-08:002010-11-22T12:25:39.525-08:00WHAT NOW AMERICA--BaNZai7<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1K9yfPzKUvc?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-19303487610835308972010-11-08T19:30:00.000-08:002010-11-08T19:30:00.922-08:00Happy story!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgNzLaJquBGxEVLxLTm3JWDk55JMWHWEe3fOC7mpwXl0JHTNlfxBjmK6wW9chqtbQwgjD4kh-GpTmNb20eObVnwjaIsv_JLUKupn2Dyg8q0HwPHH_o4FYwgabfuWxNiRRTk1A9EVpv5g/s1600/dolphin_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgNzLaJquBGxEVLxLTm3JWDk55JMWHWEe3fOC7mpwXl0JHTNlfxBjmK6wW9chqtbQwgjD4kh-GpTmNb20eObVnwjaIsv_JLUKupn2Dyg8q0HwPHH_o4FYwgabfuWxNiRRTk1A9EVpv5g/s400/dolphin_02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px;"><b style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten-day-old dolphin was discovered by walkers on a beach near Montevideo, Uruguay. </b></span><br />
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This is a dead mother deer behind my house in the woods... I saw her yesterday and she must of just died and a coyote or something had just eaten her heart out... today when I went back about half of her was eaten away.<br />
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I had seen two fawns in the neighborhood who looked too young to be on their own... a friend who lives several houses away told me that she had seen a mother deer with a broken leg and the two fawns together... <br />
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So the fawns had been hanging around with their mother in those back woods and now she is gone... I hope the best for the fawns...<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-45004161939892279052010-10-16T05:29:00.000-07:002010-10-16T08:42:05.464-07:00My goldfish!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Today is my goldfish's birthday so I'm doing some special things for her! [Her name is SillyFish!]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I <a href="http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-raise-mosquito-larvae-for-fish-food-064012/">grew her some homemade mosquito larvae</a>!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I decorated her bowl!!!!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25728694@N02/4339204618/" title="Tigger again by Of all the voices in my head, on Flickr"><img alt="Tigger again" height="375" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4339204618_6b32bede59.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">And I got her some shows from Youtube for fun!!!!</span><br />
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<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiYLOkXuHAc?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiYLOkXuHAc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><b>HAPPY BIRTHDAY SILLYFISH!!!</b></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-55405471617000925742010-10-09T08:45:00.000-07:002010-10-09T08:45:58.042-07:00Kitchen gardeners - cultivating global change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuU40mWRy6-edl0gXy1zBFqHs4FU50cLVVRp5_20jsBuMfYPt149K8wZc7HFpepU71qRuMiLlwfpfYdLl0CtZNtEe5e6hIrKKUxScSENeWr5CwbkjD_iSa-20M_uP4vswe4rPp0IZO_Ls/s1600/poms_figs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuU40mWRy6-edl0gXy1zBFqHs4FU50cLVVRp5_20jsBuMfYPt149K8wZc7HFpepU71qRuMiLlwfpfYdLl0CtZNtEe5e6hIrKKUxScSENeWr5CwbkjD_iSa-20M_uP4vswe4rPp0IZO_Ls/s400/poms_figs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>This is a<a href="https://kitchengardeners.org/blogs/suedreiling/heres-figs-behind-lemons"> recipe for figs/blue cheese and caramelized almonds</a> from a great site...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Kitchen gardeners - cultivating global change</span></span><br />
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I think it's helpful for peeps to know that their gardening efforts really do effect the world... beyond just eating really well...<br />
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And I would LOVE to have a fig tree... maybe we can plant one to share at the community garden...???<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-68501720732906242722010-09-24T20:09:00.000-07:002010-09-24T20:19:27.719-07:00Novelty eats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagKARJkvukba4nlILqYimv4yNzMYWS1JhDSTLThL7OD6WwE1lUNK2aqmquKD6KoN3NBOcvl1HburQyyMrUitAl6DZyyNpzCr18PxIXdwfOhUly8Tp3S_YiBBMPRjel2rWkVeS4ScznrU/s1600/giant-cabbages_1475073i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiagKARJkvukba4nlILqYimv4yNzMYWS1JhDSTLThL7OD6WwE1lUNK2aqmquKD6KoN3NBOcvl1HburQyyMrUitAl6DZyyNpzCr18PxIXdwfOhUly8Tp3S_YiBBMPRjel2rWkVeS4ScznrU/s400/giant-cabbages_1475073i.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-buXSk5Iq_icgN2AhabfBMJpccV8ZLChXHkGfoFI6rADLBPWH9SvvSNG1KPpsfixoeniqQko3DYO4Ltc7hCJuNdTNXRK8owRjCs68gmK3Ow0gSWS9jXLHi-hM9Lhakjzt8DK46wMsCEc/s1600/pear-mould_1475078i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-buXSk5Iq_icgN2AhabfBMJpccV8ZLChXHkGfoFI6rADLBPWH9SvvSNG1KPpsfixoeniqQko3DYO4Ltc7hCJuNdTNXRK8owRjCs68gmK3Ow0gSWS9jXLHi-hM9Lhakjzt8DK46wMsCEc/s400/pear-mould_1475078i.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Commercial opportunities!!!!! [<a href="http://www.makeuptalk.com/forums/f111/freaky-fruit-vile-vegetables-98877.html">Linky</a>]<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-30546107091482948552010-09-20T18:07:00.001-07:002010-09-20T18:07:45.421-07:00Devil at the solstice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisz0OveV70XdqmuhPVQb4kQC5vWZh8rIswwnVlfjbeQoXQEQoiSlxNaXpY94jHIKVkj8ImdH-f4FrE465gmJjm5VQcW1TJnkTIlahIiH1x8aNyA2hrW7i9RuR96BFf2bPrMfJb6jgZ0fc/s1600/DSCN1978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisz0OveV70XdqmuhPVQb4kQC5vWZh8rIswwnVlfjbeQoXQEQoiSlxNaXpY94jHIKVkj8ImdH-f4FrE465gmJjm5VQcW1TJnkTIlahIiH1x8aNyA2hrW7i9RuR96BFf2bPrMfJb6jgZ0fc/s400/DSCN1978.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Mammoth grew this one!<br />
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Solstice DEVIL!!!!<br />
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The moon is full, full full!<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-38512314180830037162010-08-29T12:07:00.000-07:002010-08-29T12:07:35.570-07:00Box heads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBigMEiXqjFUkI1FAoGiWzsKFBfd4C77JLKpvaZ3MRgUvZgYmxCuff8caQ8UFQt9hqarWj5CsKDnz2ZUOUMEKWl3R9SXXyYCSDky5ojSyQWfxFtzXZqUv-j0qWZthpytwjkCWts_cK9WA/s1600/box_heads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBigMEiXqjFUkI1FAoGiWzsKFBfd4C77JLKpvaZ3MRgUvZgYmxCuff8caQ8UFQt9hqarWj5CsKDnz2ZUOUMEKWl3R9SXXyYCSDky5ojSyQWfxFtzXZqUv-j0qWZthpytwjkCWts_cK9WA/s400/box_heads.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I made this piece a long time ago...<br />
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And I still feel this way about society...<br />
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Odd how art expresses deep feelings about complex subjects...<br />
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Here's to deboxing society...<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-72187084887138447822010-07-19T12:06:00.000-07:002010-07-19T12:06:12.648-07:00Sweet summer...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYocF2VP1tsDme4VdBxzZh5EDJdYpQ_TDdhbhDTqA-ktC7ATySQvrtvKedOCkv5T4PZLFhxeYiRthUmJ25CIWceinBn7MoY08JxP0Qa33PaBs62JAOa2ba0biKPvPP9uNNULEsIFXFljw/s1600/DSCN2210.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYocF2VP1tsDme4VdBxzZh5EDJdYpQ_TDdhbhDTqA-ktC7ATySQvrtvKedOCkv5T4PZLFhxeYiRthUmJ25CIWceinBn7MoY08JxP0Qa33PaBs62JAOa2ba0biKPvPP9uNNULEsIFXFljw/s400/DSCN2210.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji9GTJr7ZwZhc3tN5tNaex3RDjMHprIXa0xayVlQ9iwVqRYviDIjfF7PxTM58Cy71sAMcjo-sTv-ZR221KblR721e-E-wreJXLzHbqWZT4fB-_fwa3Y5jDUggc7t8ldwSSfbNMIjLy-g/s1600/DSCN2214.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgji9GTJr7ZwZhc3tN5tNaex3RDjMHprIXa0xayVlQ9iwVqRYviDIjfF7PxTM58Cy71sAMcjo-sTv-ZR221KblR721e-E-wreJXLzHbqWZT4fB-_fwa3Y5jDUggc7t8ldwSSfbNMIjLy-g/s400/DSCN2214.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs0dZlLzwt_I7IiG1-b8HAIhM8cqd8fyby1vC-OK35ah5CjvkZH-O4iwCrXQShgfMlsW0q9isq5-fKLqJaubQ0ki5YI4b5wWw2Ymo87WqdvDvBUFkpTtcWuDZsS1MFj_-ye3pN4S26U4/s1600/DSCN2217.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs0dZlLzwt_I7IiG1-b8HAIhM8cqd8fyby1vC-OK35ah5CjvkZH-O4iwCrXQShgfMlsW0q9isq5-fKLqJaubQ0ki5YI4b5wWw2Ymo87WqdvDvBUFkpTtcWuDZsS1MFj_-ye3pN4S26U4/s400/DSCN2217.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Pictures that I took today to remember summer happiness!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I don't usually put politicks on this blog but this is very good!</span></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a class="entry-title-link" href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/07/financial-reform-bill-fixes-economy.html" style="color: #2244bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Financial Reform Bill Fixes the Economy ... Just Kidding!</a></span><br />
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<a class="entry-title-link" href="http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/07/financial-reform-bill-fixes-economy.html" style="color: #2244bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><div class="entry-title-go-to" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(https://www.google.com/reader/ui/3607832474-entry-action-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% -416px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline; height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 16px;"></div></a><br />
<div class="entry-author" style="color: #666666; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="entry-source-title-parent">from <a class="entry-source-title" href="https://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Fgeorgewashington2.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault" style="color: #2244bb; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">George Washington's Blog</a></span> <span class="entry-author-parent">by <span class="entry-author-name">George Washington</span></span><br />
<div class="entry-likers" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 650px;"></div></div><div class="entry-debug" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="entry-annotations" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="entry-body" style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 650px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="item-body" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Congress, Bernanke, Geithner and the boys are patting themselves on the back for passing the financial "reform" legislation. Obama <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hz13IY28A6Jx1XbBR7Cp1WIiCQGgD9H040H80" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">says</a> it was "my policies that got us out of this mess." The glorious financial reform bill has fixed the economy. Just kidding! In reality, as discussed below, <span style="font-style: italic;">none </span>of the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/why-isnt-economy-stabilizing.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">real problems</a> have been addressed. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-style: italic;">The rule of law</span> <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/well-known-economist-says-economists.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">has not been restored</a>, so - as <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/06/did-fed-economist-slam-bloggers-for.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">PhD</a> economist James Galbraith <a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/76146/tremble-banks-tremble" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">notes</a> - the economy can't recover. Consumer confidence is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-sentiment-posts-biggest-one-month-drop-since-lehman-2010-7" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">plunging</a> again because no one has actually <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/economy-will-not-recover-until-trust-is.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">taken the steps which would <span style="font-style: italic;">restore trust</span></a>in the system. The real economy continues to bleed and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fgeorgewashington2.blogspot.com%2F+unemployment&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">unemployment continues to plague the economy</a>, because the government is <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/why-patient-is-not-getting-better.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">feeding the parasite and killing the patient</a>. Main street continues to bleed because - instead of breaking up the too big to fails so that their dead weight stops suffocating the real economy (virtually all leading independent economists have said that <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/white-house-still-defending-myths-about.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">the too big to fails must be broken up, or the economy won't be able to recover</a>; and see <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/federal-reserve-bank-of-dallas.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>), the government has allowed them to get <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/15-years-ago-combined-assets-of-6.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">even bigger</a> (and see <a href="http://motherjones.com/files/images/big-bank-theory-chart.jpg" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/zandi-oligopoly-has-tightened.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>). Indeed, just as BIS <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/12/central-banks-central-bank-says.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">warned</a> years ago, bailing out the banks has simply spread their crisis into a sovereign crises ... and now the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/global/12refinance.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">banks <span style="font-style: italic;">and </span>governments are broke</a>, and the entire fiat money system worldwide is imploding. <br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div>Deficit hawks" like top economic historian Niall Ferguson says that America's debt will drive it into a debt crisis, and that any more quantitative easing will lead our creditors to pull the plug. See <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/niall-ferguson-sorry-krugman-were-not-in-keynes-world-anymore-2010-7" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/niall-ferguson-a-u.s.-debt-crisis-is-on-its-way-518725.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>. Indeed, PhD economist Michael Hudson <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTcyMjM1MjE2.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">says</a> (starting around 4:00 into video): <br />
<blockquote>If the problem that is grinding the economy to a halt - too much debt - and if no one in the government, in either party is looking at solving the debt problem, then the answer is, we're going to go into a massive, go into a depression as far as the eye can see.</blockquote>Yet the U.S. hasn't reined in its profligate spending. While modern economic theory shows that <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/us-will-hit-94-debt-to-gdp-ratio-next.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">debts<span style="font-style: italic;"> do </span>matter</a>(and see <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/11/deficits-and-massive-debt-overhangs-do.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>), the U.S. is spending on <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/raise-taxes-and-cut-spending-why-not.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">guns and butter</a> like debts are a good thing. As PhD economist Dean Baker <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/the-attack-of-the-real-bl_b_643506.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">points out</a>, the IMF is cracking down on the once-proud America like a naughty third world developing country. (As I've repeatedly <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/what-should-we-make-of-obamas-spending.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">noted</a>, the IMF performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system during Bush's last term in office - something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.) On the other hand, "deficit doves" - i.e. Keynesians like Paul Krugman - say that unless we spend <span style="font-style: italic;">much mor</span>e on stimulus, we'll slide into a depression. And yet the government isn't spending money on the types of stimulus that will have the most bang for the buck: like giving money to the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/axelrod-no-great-appetite_n_642928.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">states</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/unemployment-extension-20_n_649685.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">extending unemployment benefits</a> or buying more <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/91851/obey-white-house-suggested-cutting-food-stamps-to-pay-for-edujobs-funding" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">food stamps</a> - let alone rebuilding America's manufacturing base. See <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/02/which-stimulus-programs-have-most-bang.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10008/03-02-Macro_Effects_of_ARRA.pdf" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/military-industrial-compex-is-ruining.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>. <br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div>Nobel prize winning economist George Akerlof <a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8198-Economic-Policy-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Nobel-prizewinning-economist-described-the-root-of-the-financial-crisis-in-1993" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">predicted</a> in <span style="font-style: italic;">1993</span> that credit default swaps would lead to a major crash, and that future crashes were guaranteed unless the government stopped letting big financial players loot by placing bets they could never pay off when things started to go wrong, and by continuing to bail out the gamblers. (Not only has the government <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/700-billion-ha-real-costs-of-bailouts.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">rewarded the gamblers</a>, bailed them out and let them engage in a new round of risky betting, but it <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/senator-cantwell-congress-weakening.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">hasn't even reined in credit default swaps</a>.) Paul Volcker is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11volcker.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">warning</a> that the watered-down Volcker rule (which won't even kick in for some time) won't prevent the next crisis. Similarly, one of the primary authors of the legislation - Chris Dodd - long ago said the bill<a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/dodd-financial-reform-bill-all-holes.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">wouldn't prevent future crises</a>. Shady accounting is part of what got us into this mess ... but as Citigroup Inc. analyst Keith Horowitz <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-11/bank-earnings-depending-on-debt-writedown-abomination-in-latest-forecast.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">notes</a>, banks are making huge amounts of money from an accounting rule that allows banks to book <span style="font-style: italic;">profits </span>when the value of their own bonds <span style="font-style: italic;">falls.</span> High frequency trading is <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/scientific-proof-high-frequency-trading-induces-adverse-changes-market-microstructure-and-dy" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">wrecking the markets</a> ... but isn't addressed in the new legislation. Neither is reforming <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=f5f&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%28fannie+OR+freddie%29+another+billion&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">money pits</a> like Fannie and Freddie The Fed is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7893238/Feds-volte-face-sends-the-dollar-tumbling.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">warning</a> of 5 to 6 years before the economy recovers, and "significant downside risks" and a possible slide into deflation. Big surprise ... the idiot Bernanke doesn't understand that <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/government-is-using-wrong-tools-to-fix.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">liquidity was never the problem</a>, he has continued the <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/bis-slammed-federal-reserve-and-other.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">same behavior</a> which got us into this mess in the first place. Bernanke and the Fed have caused widespread destruction to the economy (see <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/m1-money-multiplier-still-crashing-each.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/fractional-fictional-reserve-banking.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/7-questions-about-public-banking.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/12/questions-for-bernankes-senate.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>) ... and yet <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703722804575369072934590574.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">the Fed has been given<span style="font-style: italic;">more</span></a> - instead of less - power. <br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The moron Geithner was largely responsible for the crash and prolonging the crisis (see <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/geithner-we-saved-economy-but-we-kind.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/geithner-looting-country-for-trillions.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/geithner-summers-bernanke-plan-to-prop.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/03/does-single-independent-economist-buy.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/geithners-new-york-fed-to_n_414449.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/geithners-folly_b_170928.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/08/taleb-bernanake-summers-and-geithner.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/congressman-sherman-geithners-proposal.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/time-calls-geithner-and-con-man-and.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/business/27geithner.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">this</a>) ... and yet <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071603732.html?hpid=topnews" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">Geithner is being given <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span></a> - instead of less - power."</div>Instead of becoming more democratic and more of a free market capitalist economy, the U.S. has become an <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/zandi-oligopoly-has-tightened.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">oligarchy</a>, a <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/82-of-americans-clamp-down-on-wall.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">kleptocracy</a>, a <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/banana-republic-with-no-bananas.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">banana republic</a>, a <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/capitalism-socialism-fascism-or.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">socialist or fascist state</a> which acts <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/only-21-say-us-government-has-consent.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">without the consent of the governed</a>. No wonder the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/weekly-leading-index-almost-a-lock-for-double-dip-territory-2010-7" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">American</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/weekly-leading-index-almost-a-lock-for-double-dip-territory-2010-7" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">world</a> economies are falling back into the double dip of a very <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/greenspan-most-virulent-global.html" style="color: #2244bb;" target="_blank">nasty downturn</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">And see </span><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/presenting-wall-worry-50-ugliest-facts-about-us-economy" style="color: #2244bb; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">this</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-17446853018517643412010-07-14T19:26:00.000-07:002010-07-14T19:26:37.495-07:00Grow, grow GROWING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSp4COOmo_r_e7UMNtar8Rg0KSLU31lH7_emLHCcmILuGZplUCu5BfSaCbc_ELVW5Sr0jdS98vgS8aV0BLNVV50A5HjjKHtNuJy2w-kHDtJ4sjD1sA_Q1umsNADGYMSeKV0NK3L1x4Oqo/s1600/DSCN2191.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSp4COOmo_r_e7UMNtar8Rg0KSLU31lH7_emLHCcmILuGZplUCu5BfSaCbc_ELVW5Sr0jdS98vgS8aV0BLNVV50A5HjjKHtNuJy2w-kHDtJ4sjD1sA_Q1umsNADGYMSeKV0NK3L1x4Oqo/s400/DSCN2191.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUvnK3bFkny-kYGlcEico0TqQ8wV1yibIXGc0oP_VXNplFsbT_qcB6pQzEC8neZhJpxqctmed0d56cQ2NJPVtMQuxWuspAV15iluHx_EuvFeNuKkHbdxEes8Zrtk1E57iuugoVbPgHLw/s1600/DSCN2194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUvnK3bFkny-kYGlcEico0TqQ8wV1yibIXGc0oP_VXNplFsbT_qcB6pQzEC8neZhJpxqctmed0d56cQ2NJPVtMQuxWuspAV15iluHx_EuvFeNuKkHbdxEes8Zrtk1E57iuugoVbPgHLw/s400/DSCN2194.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>The rains have come the last few days and the gardens are very happy... here they are in all their glory!<br />
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Lots of good lessons... :)<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-23078221012355560062010-07-04T20:05:00.000-07:002010-07-04T20:05:52.700-07:00Sweet one...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMMGF_qvxV_jaejeIh0WBW-rfPzqvWzqGwSQ7MWjibqvxCD4h5i2_QcGhX7TUJHmLeqcgiEpcWGrmHrk_L1J_0_y5zkHdVlI698AlSiBxOGRZMLxrTt7RmNd0IcBluMmij_XltIP60EQ/s1600/sweet_girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMMGF_qvxV_jaejeIh0WBW-rfPzqvWzqGwSQ7MWjibqvxCD4h5i2_QcGhX7TUJHmLeqcgiEpcWGrmHrk_L1J_0_y5zkHdVlI698AlSiBxOGRZMLxrTt7RmNd0IcBluMmij_XltIP60EQ/s400/sweet_girl.jpg" width="296" /></a></div>Looks a little worried...<br />
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via <a href="http://akubizone.tumblr.com/post/767656759/happy-fucking-fourth-of-july">Akubi</a>...<div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-37862214197967614492010-06-27T07:51:00.000-07:002010-06-27T07:51:07.011-07:00Edgar Allan Pug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SEPMft6s9Bel9esL907i5oImvkCCT5cNmCVGyTkotW_Cs8r422bVr-mQvhjndWnwCib_bkoGlaWg1QpS2rcG79pfgMTqu2oCtX6PQktXGrUWH9RPI6tk7Dpm5T_nF9m5THr_1svp08M/s1600/Edgar_Allen_Pug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1SEPMft6s9Bel9esL907i5oImvkCCT5cNmCVGyTkotW_Cs8r422bVr-mQvhjndWnwCib_bkoGlaWg1QpS2rcG79pfgMTqu2oCtX6PQktXGrUWH9RPI6tk7Dpm5T_nF9m5THr_1svp08M/s400/Edgar_Allen_Pug.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><b>Speaks for itself...</b></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">via </span><a href="http://fuckyeahdogs.tumblr.com/post/740414776/dazashan-from-the-set-of-liteary-pet-cards-by"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FYD</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> via </span><a href="http://www.chetart.com/index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chet Phillips</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-90524541274000866262010-06-24T10:57:00.000-07:002010-06-24T10:57:09.936-07:00Knowledge is power!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMG5tXifsNVgyfUWD7SI_3tZUrIwkGj2h7CwbLgNPdYcpz9vhJU-4-mbm980R7k_gjkf7fc9xIcHnWkS5-fp8Hvidhss_23TJBhB2LtRHT3VXs5Yl4PPoO-5w5-78vjVFkqMqb9KGh20/s1600/knowledge_is_power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMG5tXifsNVgyfUWD7SI_3tZUrIwkGj2h7CwbLgNPdYcpz9vhJU-4-mbm980R7k_gjkf7fc9xIcHnWkS5-fp8Hvidhss_23TJBhB2LtRHT3VXs5Yl4PPoO-5w5-78vjVFkqMqb9KGh20/s400/knowledge_is_power.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">via </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://yama-bato.tumblr.com/post/726064927/christopher-dresser-the-art-of-decorative">Yama-Bato</a></span><br />
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<h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2.5em; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Anti-whaling activist pleads guilty but denies assault</h1><div><div class="first" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune appeared in a Tokyo court this morning facing five charges related to his boarding of a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic earlier this year.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Bethune is charged with trespass, vandalism, obstructing commercial activity, being armed with a weapon and, most seriously, assault causing injury.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The assault charge stems from allegations Bethune threw tubs of rancid butter onto one of the whaling ships and in the process slightly injured a Japanese crewman.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Bethune pleaded guilty to four of the charges but denied the assault.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">If convicted he faces up to 15 years in jail.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The charges arose after Bethune tried to make a citizen's arrest on the whaling ship's captain and was also trying to serve him with a multi-million-dollar damage bill.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Bethune was the captain of the powerboat, the Ady Gil, that was destroyed in a confrontation with the Shonan Maru 2 in January.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">On Thursday, a group of ultra-nationalist supporters gathered outside the court to make it clear they want Bethune punished.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">One carried a placard calling for the Sea Shepherd activist to be hung.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">More than 400 people queued for 18 seats inside the courtroom.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Bethune faces an uphill battle, with the Japanese conviction rate particularly steep compared to Western standards.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The court system in which Bethune is being trailed is widely quoted as having a 99.8 per cent conviction rate, and Japanese law deals with assault charges harshly.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Bethune has served three months already and according to his lawyer is hoping for a suspended sentence.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">They are hoping the court will take into account that he pleaded guilty on the other charges and consider he is conceding he broke Japanese law.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It is believed Bethune will be tried by a panel of three judges.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0.833em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">via <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/27/2910900.htm?section=world">ABC News</a>...</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">//Sweet heat//</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2824026743531131278.post-53526763301504351572010-04-29T07:51:00.000-07:002010-04-29T07:51:21.439-07:00I'm riding a HORSE!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Happy Friday everybody and thanks Akubi for the song!!!!<br />
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