Archive for July, 2006
The Costs of War
The National Priorities Project have put together a very cool running calculator of what we could have bought for the US if we had chosen peace over war. Makes you think pretty hard about what our government spends money on, and how shameful it’s current priorities are. Making KBR, Bechtel, and Haliburton rich [...]
So that’s today’s memory lane…
Today’s the fourth of July
Another June has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think
What a waste of gunpowder and sky
I’m certain I am alone
In harboring thoughts of our home
It’s one of my faults that I can’t quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone
I ought to have gotten it…
Oh, baby, [...]
methods, processes, know-how, techniques, ideas,
My chambers are fragile yet clean.
I comb the dust and hair from my carpet.
Light runs through streaks on the glass.
The tidy piles my only control.
Looking for the speed of darkness,
the absence of speed.
Life or what is left.
A scanner, darkly…
[Listening to: Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor - Scrubs Season 2 (4:01)]
Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
I think one of the hardest things in life is to differentiate between our desire to define and describe our reality as opposed to sensing and accepting the world as it is independent or external to us. I’ve been thinking a lot about my own personal realities over the past weekend, and about what [...]
