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If You’re 84 and the Foreclosure Goons are at your Door – What it looks like in America
For the last three years I’ve been friends with a lovely ‘little old lady’ from southern California. I won’t go into all the sordid details of how this came about. Suffice to say, she found me, and at the time I was involved in work I thought might be helpful to her. She didn’t have a penny to her name, and we’ve never exchanged more than words and phone calls and endless reams of paper which supposedly ‘defined’ her position, but none the less, we have become friends. She thinks I’m very smart, and in some ways I am, but I am not smart enough to overcome the massive corruption…
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Governor of California Declares State Wide Emergency Over Water Soluble Chalk Crisis
The Daily Thistle – Because Everyone Needs a Poke Now and Then. Sacramento, California – June 26, 2013 – In a rare early morning appearance,California Governor Jerry Brown called an emergency press conference at 7:00 a.m. this morning to address the ‘Water Soluble Chalk Crisis’ facing California. “We’ve seen this coming now for some time but we had hoped to avert the crisis before it got out of hand. Unfortunately, I must admit, we have failed.” The Governor admitted in his opening remarks to the press corps. “As of this morning we are issuing a state-wide ban on the sale of all water soluble chalk, and have taken steps to…
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Local Community Garden Group Adopts Big Ag Practices
The Daily Thistle – Because Everyone Needs a Poke Now and Then Atlanta, Georgia June 5, 2013 A local community garden has determined that the biotech industry has set the right example for food growers large and small and has adopted their methods in the community gardens they operate here in Atlanta. Citing claims of increased yields and drought resistance, the group has employed the services of local RC aircraft enthusiasts. The RC group hosts weekly radio controlled aircraft flying events at a park close to the gardens. As part of the agreement, they will carry out aerial spraying three times weekly on the vegetable plots of community gardeners. “This…
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Bizarre Twist in GMO Seed Stock Story
The Daily Thistle – Because Everyone Needs a Poke Now and Then Eugene, Oregon May 30, 2013 In the wake of a fast breaking story concerning unapproved genetically modified wheat seeds turning up in Oregon, Monsanto officials today announced that they were ‘shocked’ to learn of the seeds appearance in a field in Oregon’s wheat growing heartland. The seeds, undetected until very recently, apparently made their escape from the high security Monsanto facility in St. Louis, Missouri some time ago. The USDA announced on Wednesday that they were ‘investigating the situation’ and would be filing a preliminary report on the matter as soon as they got back to their offices.…
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The Beautiful Truth – Let Food Be Your Medicine
This incredible and in-depth video is a very clear and direct statement to the people of the world who would care to know the truth about food and health. An absolute must watch movie for anyone with children and anyone who cares about their health. There is no excuse for anyone to be ignorant any longer of the dangers of processed foods and chemicals in our food, healthcare and dental industries. It is fascinating and revealing to consider, for instance, that the five companies behind genetically engineered and modified foods are not agricultural companies. Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer,Syngenta and Dow. They are all chemical companies. Finally, consider this sobering review of…
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Weeds
Like Nature’s Mad Insurrectionists they continue to arrive Unchecked Outside of all reason in numbers Without apology or regret Of any kind They are in a world of their own by their own design Unstoppable as the tides or the rising of the moon They preside over their landscape unwilling to relent In any Form or fashion Assaulted by poisons and pestilence They adapt Grow stronger As if their mantra is “Whatever you do, I will endure.” A lesson perhaps, to the rich From the poor. An interesting graph might be The comparative values of The increase in world wide poverty The increase in processed foods The increase in healthcare…
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Spinning in the Dreamer’s Eye
Sweet garden spinning in the dreamer’s eye All her lands were hidden in the trees The universe was pleased and sent the dreamer back to sleep now we must awake take back take back your power every minute of every hour every breath you take every move you make every thing you do it’s all up to you there have been many young seekers turned back when faced with meager survival crushes dreams you must remember who you are take back take back your power learn to open like a flower every word you say every game you play every thing you do it’s all up to you sweet garden…
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The Power of the Familiar
Wrapped about us like a glove invisible through our eyes Yet, essential to our being Certain. “As familiar as the back of my hand” It is ours. Irrevocably. In some cultures, the language reflects this knowing, this awareness of self and other. I grew up in such a culture. Not by nationality, language or dialect Not by accidental happenstance, but by intent and design. By those who came before me in my family. From my mother’s family,welll before I arrived, the family spoke ‘Quaker’ or, ‘familiar’ English I grew up in a familiar world of ‘thee’ and ‘thy’ and an unfamiliar world of ‘you’ and ‘yours’ As I watch the…
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Do You Remember 17?
A Parable to remind us all Some years ago, I was confronted with a situation in which I had taken on the care and feeding of a young man who was not my own child, but the friend of one of my children. He was 17 and in the midst of a parental separation battle. He had been ‘left’ to live with his father in order to finish school where he had been with close friends and teachers for some time… But the father thing was not working out and he had been thrown to the streets by this man, who claimed to be his father. His mother, meantime, had…
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Conversation
It is at once exhilerating and complex Takes time to readjust but not. Speaking the clarity of the intent and subtle awareness. So that another might by luck or instinct understand. And to do this in dialogue… Divine.
