Happy Birthday, Kate Bush....

Happy Birthday Mom...

What flower are you?

Pixie is a Canna What Flower Are You?

Thanks, Miss Cellania!

The Sunrise Ruby

In the early morning hour,
just before dawn, lover and beloved wake
to take a drink of water.

She asks, "Do you love me or yourself more?
Really, tell the absolute truth"

He says, "There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no
resistance to sunlight."

The ruby and sunrise are one.
Be courageous and discipline yourself.

Completely become hearing and ear,
and wear this sun-ruby as an earring.

Work. Keep digging your well.
Don't think about getting off from work.
Water is there somewhere

Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that
is a ring on the door.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look to see who's there.

Rumi

well...it would appear that the planet survived the few hours that Dick Cheney was serving as "acting President" while Bushie had his brain scan...er...colonoscopy...

...bless us one and all...

...was talking with a friend earlier about how there's a war on drugs , a war on terror, a war on poverty, a war on this and a war on that...

decided there should be a "war on morons"

not naming any names, but...

happy holidaze - part three

...Californian Joey Chestnut defeats Takeru Kobayashi in Nathan's annual hotdog eating competition and brings the Mustard Belt back to our shores by scarfing sixty-six frankfurters in twelve minutes...

...i've never been so proud to be an American...

happy holidaze - part two

...watching an arizona diamondbacks game on the telly...lots of patriotic content given what day it is...an az. sportscaster is interviewing a national guardsman back here at home because of bodily injuries and on two occasions says to this wounded warrior "I'll bet you'd like to be back in Iraq right now with your buddies"...no response each time...when finally given the chance to speak his heart he said he was glad to be here...not there...and that he wished all his brothers in arms were home...now...

...message received...

peace...

happy holidaze

...as you are sitting by your comfy pools, enjoying your holiday barbeques,
lend a moment of thought to the the thousands and thousands of folks
displaced by Katrina still languishing in funky FEMA trailers,
many with perfectly good homes to return to but kept away by
the "movers and shakers" who plot to steal their property...

...thank whatever diety you pray to that you are not one of
the moved and the shaken...

...Martha Stewart goes to jail...even Paris Hilton goes to jail...but Scooter Libby runs free...

...what a world...