when intensely felt

Going through the motions
that carry me along
as if this is my life


Clearly, it is the Israelis
who are the antisemites
Are they being punished for hate crimes?


Luxuriate in simple pleasures
Feed on what feeds your blossoming


I don't want my mind
corrupted by AI slop


AOC and Pete Buttigieg --
a ticket I could go all out for
because of their obvious intelligence
and call to public service


I prefer to be free of outside
responsibilities, that I may focus
on my projects.
That is what I prefer.
I do what I can between my
preferences and my needs


All these absurdly stupid wastes of
time, resources, lives, while we ignore
the vital work to keep our people
alive, or even learn to thrive


Wisdom's voice
Those who seek to listen
Talk of connection
Talk of empathy
Talk of all those we's
that make our world


Nothing can be done
So, it's fine to do nothing
Ignore those morons doing
everything we can.
See!  Nothing has become as we
imagined as what should be.
To believe, and so act, is futility.
Let's just go on as we always do,
occasionally complaining.
I remember Biden (not THAT
long ago) being bitterly criticized
for not lifting the Covid restrictions
border rules.  Now I keep hearing:
"Biden's open border" as if that were
a real thing.


All people suck, but not all the time
(and some much more than others).
Some people do truly heinous,
horrific actions; and they need to be
condemned, even removed from those
they would harm.  But people are
complicated.  Even the worst may
create something beautiful.  Why 
condemn the good they may bring,
despite evil.  Acknowledging, even
enjoying the good in no way approves
of the bad.


Life is very hard
on what could have been
the best of us, kicks the
kindness out of us by
overwhelming
though we may rise, and rise again


These are the fires that burn
though our screams, through our
nightmares
More likely today to burn whole
lives away.
Fires of Hell, unleashed by
wealth seeking War lords
How is life different from nightmares
we may hope to awake from?

the hate, disparagement, games of 
gotcha, underlying war of all against 
all -- this is not the human world I 
(or most of us) signed up for



We could be having the benefits of 
self-rule, of by for The People, if the 
people would take the reigns, 
demand our power acknowledged, 
stop abdicating to 
Parties, Media, Disinformation, Them



8/9-21/26

within our abilities

 
Expressing to your reps that 
they NEED to impeach/convict/remove 
is far from a waste of the very little time 
it takes!  In fact, this is something we all 
can easily do while also doing whatever 
else seems useful and within our abilities.  
The point is that we have a common, Loud, 
unrelenting demand that will bring us more 
together as a people while insisting to our 
reps that we in fact are a People
 insisting on our power.

when we actually take our actions from 
a win/win/win perspective, everybody wins



did you know that the theory/myth of 
human races was created and promoted 
as scientific by  European men who needed 
a “rational” excuse for kidnapping and 
enslaving other people?

These people are DEAD --
gone forever.
Their work will not be brought
to full conclusion. Their families
will not be complete.  Not due
to some disease or accident,
nor climate change disaster, but
rather our national tragedy
of escalating vicious murders
under Trump's authority.



These worldclass mad men,
obsessed with power -- so caught 
 up in their deranged game
We who trying to live out simple lives
destroyed as collateral damage

Lack  of awareness of 
my existence
frustrates, slowly enrages

November '26 - VOTE, yes!
But people need to be voting TODAY
in primaries, special elections, with 
our daily actions, demands
We need to make our will heard
NOW, in every way we can

We are made to feel the need
to be normal -- whatever that
may mean, without honoring
who we may deeply know or
want ourselves to be.
We, consciously or more likely not,
feel cheated, bereaved, unfairly
treated.
Then, those show up in our
world (OUR world), blatantly
different.  How dare they!
They must be made to see how
WRONG they are.  We must
punish, castigate these errors in
being other than what we have
been made to believe is right.

You speak of the Dems as big tent
positive in terms of diversity, and
in contrast to GOP restrictiveness.
You don't, though, seem to
understand the implications.
While the people you tend to
talk with agree we believe A,
and you think, of course the Dems
should be making A happen,
most of the constituents these reps
talk with may instead believe B
-- not just funders, but regular
voters who make their voices heard.
Not as simple a situation as you
may think.

MAGAns are Leviathans (Supernatural
big bad led by a nasty Dick)

We think of Citizens United big
money in politics corrupting our
elections.  But look at the big
money involved in the business
of politics. The overarching emphasis
on profits tends to undermine the
purpose of democracy.




Love the people in your life
for exactly who they are
It's love, for you to feel.

My great hoarded wealth 
of experiences, and
all they do is burn

7/13-8/9/26

get out the #VOTE!

what do we know about getting out the vote?

I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier – 
child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and 
what they might need to bring

information about where/how to register, and help to do that
https://vote.gov/register
Voter registration deadlines vary by state and territory. 
Once you register, you can vote in national, state, and local elections.
CHECK YOU ARE REGISTERED REGULARLY, 
THEN EXERCISE YOUR CIVIC DUTY AND ACTUALLY VOTE!

make it fun with get out the #vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, 
community parties (“political parties” but the fun kind)
what else?

t seems to generally be the nonvoters that are the bulk of the electorate – 
abdication of democracy
perhaps because we don’t emphasize: voting is not a privilege, or merely a right;
voting is our basic duty as citizens in a democratic republic
Find out what keeps people from voting; do all we can to make it easier for them

 

the music that is you

 

the whole gestalt often becomes overwhelming
take a break
get some sleep
dance!
Find Fun
you are a human being and deserve to have enjoyment

the problem with problematic men is "masculinity":  
an obsession with somehow proving what you 
obviously are, by doing shit no one wants

I take back my consciousness from
the human world
return me to me




Meaning is not something to be sought.
It is something to create.
Is this the crux of human tragedy?
We believe we are without agency,
dependent on some authority,
when it is our life to create --
however dangerous or safe.




They could never take away
the music that is you

The music we make together 
carries us through the hard dance
of life.

Masculine, Feminine
What does that mean?
We are each who we are,
without need for such social
categorization.

Luxuriate in today's pleasures/
blessings
before the changes overtake them

We need someone to blame for
all of life's bad times,
while staying ok with our friends,
neighbors
Let that job be God's
We can rail and rage without
possibility of damage to that
source
But, of course, if we can clearly see
evil Men in charge, we can blame
and stand against they who can
be touched.

Let all the hurt inside of you
die
Come up, out of the other side
Be your life
free from the weight of pain




It does less good to fight against
without something better to be
moving toward




It certainly seems like the MAGA
administration is working to lower
the US population significantly --
deportations, terror leading to
self-deportations, antiabortion laws
not so much to save children as to
kill mothers, ending their potential
reproduction




When we admit the complexity of
truth, we can better mitigate unwanted
behaviors.  Insisting on a simplistic 
view is better for avoiding
responsibilities.

6/28-7/12/26

back to the Garden

That Love that can heal us:

Not that whole mess of
sex and jealousy
we mistake for intimacy
I see why you are confused

;


I am starting to conclude
that most of these Democrat
bashers are not trustworthy
people, but rather spreaders
of MAGA propaganda (with or
without their knowledge)

;

All these "differences" we might
not even notice as anything
more than random variations
-- the real affliction is mean,
even vicious, people


;

After the 4-week war
an eternity of untidiness
We bombed Iran;
they took Hormuz
Now the whole world's
a mess


;

deep, even unconscious,
bond, primal family
surround, succor

;


How does one act lovingly?
Gentle, attentive, kind
without affectation
When the feeling is real,
fills desire for connection

;

part of our animal nature:
to cooperate for the good of all

;

There are no perfect people.
For those seeking/expecting
perfection: give it up
there are better goals

;


people seeking meaning
looking for something to
attach to

;


So successful we've become
motivating enterprise by profit
But what motivations have we put
in place to encourage valuing
safety?

;


Sure is easy to rant about
simplistic scapegoat solutions,
assure the masses you are
their friend, while out on the fringes
pumping up anger against those
in charge.  But once in power,
not so easy to make that useful
difference while pummeled on
every side by those wanting to
make themselves a name as
opposition.

;

we don't need no stinkin' AI 

to solve our human problems -- 
they are mere unfeeling, really 
unthinking, machines coded with our 
worst aspects
we need actual humans to stop being 
stupid and make our world work


;


it's not as if they had wands to wave 
and demand our problems fixed
especially in a highly divided country where 
what are problems and how to fix them are 
far from agreed upon
but bit by bit, problems were being solved
now, even more than in his first term, Trump 
and friends are destroying the country and 
the possibility of fixing the problems we 
even all agree about
it does make a nauseating kind of sense 
when we realize the Trump administration 
is not about us, The People, at all, but only about 
what they can take from us

6/1-23/26

not a nation of superheroes

 

How is it that amalgamations of big, strong,
bully men are soooo afraid of teensy, tiny
minorities?

Katie Porter needs more advocates 

out promoting her for CA governor.

She clearly has the best positions, experience, 

and a go out and get it done attitude.

#Californians: #Vote on or before June 2 

for the best candidate:  Katie Porter

don't concede to polls -- 

get out there and promote Katie Porter 

because you know she has the best 

policies, experience and skills

polls change based on changes 

in public perception

Who do we think these politicians are?
What do we expect them to do?
This is not a nation of superheroes.
These are merely flawed people (like
all of us), each with their own
motivations, experiences, beliefs,
abilities.
Could we find people with abilities
and beliefs better suited to our aims:
Then it's up to us to find, promote,
vote them in.  We need to do
democracy.




It's not the product, however
good, bad, indifferent, godawful
It's their hype they have the
skills to sell us

What makes them "symptoms"
rather than behaviors/experiences?

Corporations are NOT people.

Too many people seem to believe
of too many situations that there
is nothing to be done -- nothing
they can do.  Sure, each individual
has limited power.  We can, however,
get together, devise situations, form
a formidable force.
And we each have our power/skills/
knowledge to put in to make,
inspire, suggest




They all say we can be saved
by loving kindness
But, what, exactly, does that 
mean in our every day hearts,
minds, behavior?
How observe in our, yours and
mine, world?

At heart I am a problem solver
Not puzzles or games -- actual
(or fictional) personal/societal
problems.  I feel called to solve.

Are you an enterprise for investment
-- all about accumulating assets,
the agreed on go-between we call
"money"?
In the real world, money is irrelevant,
not a value to be pursued.
What we need to invest in are
friends, skills, community.
No need to be distracted from
our lives by an enmity encouraging
imaginary go-between.

People can be so damned awful
How can we be expected to love them?
Love is not about appreciating
perfection.  Love is about appreciating
the flawed others whose flaws
complement ours

Overwhelmed with humanness?
I don't know how else to put it

If my false memories are to be
believed



co-opting language can be 
co-opted
take back our words instead 
of letting cynical assholes define them
We can do it -- if every time 
we are confronted with disinfo 
we counter it persuasively

astrology is a study of cycles 
which have been observed 
for millennia anchored to cyclical 
movements of celestial 
objects and myths developed 
as metaphors



5/23-31/26

societal bias

 

just been thinking, 
the way to go forward as consumers:
shop all we want at our local 
small businesses
avoid mega-corps, businesses run 
by billionaires (or trillionaires)



our mission, for those who accept it, 
is to go out there and care about 
ourselves and each other enough to take 
our world and make it work for us all



human races was a concept 
promoted by "white" men who desperately 
wanted scientific rationale for enslaving 
"black" people
Humanity is its own race, 
sometimes broken into tribes


it's not an actual special function 
room that Trump is demanding to save him -- 
it's the survival bunker beneath, which 
once he and his chosen are safely inside 
will allow him to nuke the world



how do you find the candidates 
you decide to vote for?
do you passively let your party choose?
do you actively look at who might do, 
talk with others in your position, promote 
folks who seem a good bet?
other?


Desperate people do stupid things,
too overwhelmed to care about
outcomes
acting out in this moment of
raging despair


It's not a polarity
but a system of layered
multi-polarities -- an
expectation of antagonism
tearing us apart


Excessive ambition
generally lauded as a
means to success, is
ultimately poisonous.
If it does lead to success,
it is not a success based on
the pleasures of the project,
but on fulfilling an onerous
demand
If success of the kind the
ambition requires does
not occur, the misery that
creates may overwhelm any
potential pleasure.  Such
ambition overrides personal
relationships, personal
achievements, personal
acceptance and self-regard.
It also has great potential for
doing a variety of harms
against all potentially affected.
Potential for unnecessary pain,
outweighing potential narrow
gain.


I finally get it! (Ok, so I'm slow)
This societal bias toward Values,
statements, assumptions of "The
Right"
The GOP is the party of big
business, those "of means"
They therefore obviously have
all the resources they need to
propagandize successfully.


5/9-21/26