Archive For April 20, 2020

It’s Always 4:20 Somewhere

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It’s Always 4:20 Somewhere

How much to be revealed about marijuana especially in this time and nation for the general public! For the actual experience of the smoked herb has been completely clouded by a fog of dirty language by the diminishing crowd of fakers who have not had the experience and yet insist on being centers of propaganda…

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Set Aside Some Time

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Set Aside Some Time

Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. But nothing in the world can get you more time. – Matt Fox, The Hitchhiker Man A farmer was observed taking a basket up the hill to an apple tree, gathering apples, and bringing them back to feed his pig. He did this over and…

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Buddy Who?

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Buddy Who?

Buddy Edelen might’ve been the original Original Gangster Of Running. “When he ran, a change came over him,” Fred Wilt wrote about Edelen. “You could see the amiability in him right to the time the gun sounded. Then his eyes darkened, his features flattened, his chest expanded, he stood up a little straighter. As the…

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Greetings From House Arrest

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Greetings From House Arrest

The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.” – Sarah Noffke, Defects Sitting at home, feeling like a big target in some video game I’ve never played where stray bullets are coming from everywhere in growing numbers and the Sheriff is telling me he’s doing a great job. Been a month since…

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Trump Internment Syndrome

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Trump Internment Syndrome

“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. “It’s going to be just fine.” – Donald Trump. January 22nd, 2020. Davos. It’s on videotape. Trump Internment Syndrome (TIS) has been defined – by many people with natural ability – as the dark dread we…

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Art Class #16 (Ruth Asawa)

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Art Class #16 (Ruth Asawa)

I’ll be honest, it’s what I do. I never heard of her until the legendary United States Postal Service announced twenty new stamps featuring ten works of art by Ruth Asawa. Practically felt ashamed of myself. So I investigated. – JDW Ruth Asawa postage stamps are coming soon: The Amazing U.S. Postal Service It brings…

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March Madness (A Prisoner’s Haiku)

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March Madness (A Prisoner’s Haiku)

I didn’t dig this hole and there’s no back door. – Barker Ajax Stuck inside my house. Do not come any closer. Wishing you were here.

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October 1971 Notebook

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October 1971 Notebook

October 1971. Been out of the USAFSS for a while and lost fifty-sixty pounds. I was a Facilities Protection Officer at IBM headquarters, Old Orchard Road, in Armonk, New York. Newly married to a blonde Italian co-ed, I was taking classes at Danbury State College. Studying philosophy and poetry. Mostly worked nights and played a…

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Easter Amidst Pandemic

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Easter Amidst Pandemic

Without Easter By Joanna Fuchs Without Easter,there would be no hope of heaven.Without the hope of heaven,there would be no repentance,no personal transformation,no attempt to follow biblical principles.Without Easter,the world would be in chaosand darkness.Jesus’ death and resurrectionmeans we can be reborn,to live better, to do better,to shine light into the shadows.Hallelujah!Happy, Happy Easter.

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An Earlier OGOR – Ron Daws

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An Earlier OGOR – Ron Daws

“…When you reach the 20-mile mark of a marathon feeling utterly spent, but finish somehow, you suspect you can conquer other seemingly unbearable events in life. After you discover you can set tough goals and prevail, you realize you can accomplish almost anything you put your mind to. “You don’t have to look to the…

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