Buddhist doctrine encourages the seeking of a livelihood that does not add to the world’s misery. My lovely cohabitant, her livelihood being Bookstore Manager in each of five decades, had, I strongly believe, such a livelihood. Books had changed many lives for the better.
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Right Livelihood
Ein zwei drei fier five–call a cop
Got numbers racket? It’s out of bounds–a
Hellhound has bloodlust but folks ought not opt
This to bring harm–do not harm–don’t go south
I said
This breaks my heart, but your support of ICE leads me to think that we can’t be friends anymore. I am sorry.
He said
OK, unfriend me then. But if you do, you are narrow minded.
Then I said
ICE murdered Renée Good and Alex Pretti and drags American citizens out of their cars and uses kids as bait and violates the 4th Amendment on a daily basis. However narrow-minded I am, please consider the blind eye you have turned to this brutal reality.
Thanks for the good times. Goodbye and good luck.
And I unfriended him.
And I wonder how many more such exchanges have taken place.
When we draw breath, it is a Voting, Electing action. We have chosen to stay alive and oxygenated. Choosing a restaurant may be a vote for convenience or a fine dining experience; and traveling is a vote to be elsewhere, taking a class is a vote for knowledge enhancement, going to sleep is a vote to heal and recharge. Now, for Americans in this crucial approaching-November time, voting itself is a vital action. Please VOTE, fellow Americans!!
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Right Action
Either drinking from a cup [Eidetic dawn or 4 to sup]
Governing one’s acts at sea
Helping holding brewing T
True conductance loads a worth
[Taking lead dramatic Earth]
Right Speech
Eiderdown Fluff helps you sleep
Gongs & Owlhoots may make you weep–A
Helping voice’ll aid your rest
Three sheets and wind may be your death
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I have never read Edwin Newman’s Strictly Speaking, nor his A Civil Tongue, but I infer from the titles that Right Speech was the subject in both cases. And here in the American Heartland, one of the most lamentatious sentiments in our group mind is “Me and my big mouth!” Right Speech can move mountains and inspire greatness. Wrong speech can make enemies and sometimes even get people killed.
For “Right Intention” I took a look at Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and his What’ll I Do Now? soliloquy. Is he better off leaving the Mortal Coil, or striving for justice for his murdered father?
Right Intention
Eikons to the fore A S A P
Given two who fight a troubled sea
Help a Dane Lead Justice through the strait
Till the soil & tend thy father’s wraith
Here’s what happens when you ask your significant other “What starts with an A?” Donna gave me Angst, Bougameister (no such word quite exists) and Coconut. I took it to “g is for,” putting that directly above my signature.
Today I began a page derived from the concept of Buddhism’s Eightfold Path. I will be composing eight triple-acrostics, one for each sub-path. Here is the first.
Right View
EIEIO the Farmers cheep
Got rated # One by EPA
Hi Ho Hi Ho the little fellers chat
The forest does the rest with thicket thatch
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My Trick Answer to the question “What in the name of Enlightenment does this poem have to do with the Right View segment of the Eightfold Path of Buddhism?” is “You’d see it, if you had the right…view.” 🙂
activity streaker
my AI is passive-aggressive
when hesheit ells me
and the subtext is content creator, you are falling down on the job
nagging me softly with this notification
to produce produce PRODUCE
but i must not produce worthless content
for there is already an overabundance
of online timewasters and other trash
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the being of an activity streaker may entertain
given sufficient nakedness and/or relevance
so let’s run naked to local news/weather/sprouts
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the chemical leak in toledo
was due to some heat in a tank
thank goodness we dodged that torpedo
and have good responders to thank
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it’s sunny and crisp on our ave
and our sts and our rds are the same
but mention a crcl
a wiseacre jerk’ll
for this whirled series
say winter is coming, for shame
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take your dog to the mill for a walkie
and of happy-storms be a good brewer
be poets like horace
and sing like a chorus
of giulio neris
is half a sweep and pleasant-shocky
and a good-faith-in-baseball renewer
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to make this a good quick streak it should be a “One-minute read.” how’d we do?
we are not our best selves when sleep-deprived
not our most capable selves when falling asleep,
or coming up from sleep
and so as i seek sleep
i ask
may sleep not elude
may no one intrude
as i stumble into my slumber
and may it be peaceful
as lambwool is fleeceful
and slow-dance that morpheus number
having asked
and having visited the bathroom
and having visited darkness
on the bedroom
with a pull of
the lamp
switch,
now i
lay me
down
This card is the back of a grocery list that was jam-packed. The one item on this side, “ice cream,” was written by my cohabitant Donna and then embellished by me. The rest of the card was done while Donna was getting her hair done at Great Clips.
Shop Till U Drop (top)
Star dud
Hip spur
Older duo
Plaid soup
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Shop Till U Drop (bottom)
Stray spud
Hilltop hour
OLPH in vacuo
Platelets up
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I grew up in Glendale, Arizona. There was an Our Lady of Perpetual Help downtown, and on a few occasions the Bowers family went to Bingo Night at OLPH. I was under the delusion, that young, that there was such a thing as psychic powers, and I tried to exert my will such that my family would win the Coverall For a Thousand Dollars If You Got It In Fifty Numbers Or Fewer. “OLPH in vacuo” translates to “Our Lady Perpetual Help in a vacuum.”
