Author's posts
May 02 2010
Pish Tosh
Punching through
fabrics of official
culture.Snip snip
won’t do.Reweaves too quick for that.
***
The incessant
Boo! Boo!
becomes annoying.Lies lies
so thin.It can’t get louder so it gets thin.
***
Cocksucker, or
some other
shocking society word.Pish tosh
too slow.Doesn’t begin to approach the foe.
Apr 30 2010
Dharmathon! Now With Extra Protein!
Do you see the brass bowl at the right side of the screen? The one that has “donate” etched upon it?
If you click on the bowl, you can donate, and now is a good time.
Our Zen Dictator, buhdydharma, would normally be writing this essay, but he is having a flare-up of his back injury so you’re stuck with me.
Here’s buhdydharma’s semi-autobiographical essay from the last Dharmathon, for those of you who are interested.
Here is a pictorial biography of buhdydharma:
What a handsome man!
Apr 27 2010
“We think those few extra words are worth the effort.”
I’m on the levees.org email list and I got a message from them today:
Thanks to you, Levees.org was featured in the New York Times!
The article focused on our success in encouraging national media to report accurately on the man-made causes of the metro New Orleans flood.
And making the true story about the flooding as common knowledge as ‘the sun rising in the east’ will help the region recover.
This fine piece of journalism by reporter Brian Stelter greatly increases the reach of Levees.org message!
And it gives evidence that your ongoing efforts are paying off.
And that’s good because when the American people understand that the flooding was a federal responsibility, they may understand that rebuilding is a federal duty.
Thank you for your support!
We’re winning!
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, Levees.org
levees.org
Here’s the New York Times story.
Apr 24 2010
Shake a Hand
I won’t kid you.
Or maybe I will. Who knows what I’ll do. Ha!
Arizona just passed a law that is an unjust law.
But Arizona isn’t the only place this is happening.
Migrants living here who aren’t citizens are not the only ones suffering.
We suffer too.
It is the same suffering, there is no separation.
That’s what solidarity is. Always has been. Always will be.
Apr 18 2010
Thrangu Monastery Lament
Water floods in tears
Air rises, too high
Fire bows down in blue sorrow
Space holds all in grace
Thrangu Monastery!
In famous province
of Tibet, in Kham
In Kahm of great fame
Where minds were made
to fly like gorgeous birds
without boundaries,
in stainless space!
I have never seen you
or walked your halls
where the students and teachers
look simple and not
civilized in the Western view,
just wearing funny robes
and calling themselves
monks and lamas
sounds like a farm.
Thrangu Monastery!
How many have sat
and taken in the blessings
of the treasures,
endless phenomena of
offerings with
artistic expression
the least of their beauty!
Thrangu Monastery!
I bow in grief and reverence
To your sorrow, may all
who are wounded be completely healed,
May all who have died be liberated,
May all who are bereft receive
Unlimited compassion.
I wrote this poem
At the request
of my
flowing tears.
