Eternal Now

 

Eternal Now

To paraphrase Carlin

Now doesn't really exist

Merely the intersection 

Of future and past

Here it comes..

Wait, it's almost here

Not yet…

Now?

Nope, it's already gone

Here it comes again…

But 

It's the future that

Doesn't exit

Merely a hoped-for 

Potential, 

An assumption

Of continuation 

And the past is

Only a story of what has

Passed through

The eternal present 

Only a pattern of

Neurons strung together

Temporarily until

Those patterns dissolve

Into the Void as

The essence of our

Perceptions also

Dissolves into that same

Void from which our

Constituent essences 

Continually recycled in

The Eternal

Now

–LE

Temporarily Etched On The Ground

It Doesn't Matter

It Doesn't Matter

whether it's Social Security 

Medicare

the post office

or the VA

the only reason

to privatize 

is to give our money

the public's money

(tax revenues) 

to our leaders’

crooked friends

in the private sector

and on Wall Street

private ‘efficiency’ is a myth

doesn't exist 

never did

just capitalist propaganda 

to keep the rich rich

and those in power

even more powerful

we

the ‘unwashed masses’

can go to hell

where we obviously 

belong

time to ‘kill’

the leviathan 

–LE

Identity

 Identity 

All human Identify is

Based on stories

Stories we tell ourselves

Based on the stories

Handed down to us

Since the beginning of

Human communication 

It's how we establish

Our reality

These stories are based

On the selective information

We call 'facts'

Our vested interests intact

Since there are no such things

As 'facts'

Just perspectives

Agreed to by

Humans in charge

The 'winners'

So to speak

But

In spite of the overall

General stories

We each have our own

Individual stories too

Just as 'fact-free' as

The general ones

Merely perspectives

Guiding the rendering of

Our masks

What we want or

Expect others to see

Protects our vulnerabilities 

Our true realities 

We are human

After all

-LE 

Letters Of Marque

 

Letters Of Marque

That is 'privateers'

In other words

Pirates

Sanctioned by

Governments to

Raid and capture, or

Sink enemy

Commercial entities 

Ships, stores, and such

Their frequent symbol

The Jolly Roger

Crossed bones with

A grinning skull atop

Even though letters of marque

Officially faded away 

In the mid nineteenth century 

Modern 'privateers'

That is pirates

Still ply their trade

But they are now called

Hedge fund managers

I'm waiting for them

To use the traditional symbol 

With the skull grinnning

Back at you...

--LE - 7/28/25

Stock internet photo...

Tui Shou

Tui Shou

When practicing push hands

I let my hand textures morph

Through soft and 'sticky' to limp to

Letting my hand-blades spring out

Like claws from

Cat's paws for the 

Decisive bloodless cut

My center and blades

Flowing and dominating

The swirling currents

Of my body's space/time

Embrace

--LE - 7/26

Mesquite-dreams

 

ancient Mesquites lean dangerously 

over the path as if whispering to

younger ones on the other side

some copses remind me

of groups of people lounging

under bushy ramadas

gossiping in low tones

‘look at those untethered ones’

‘they don't seem to know that

everything comes to those who wait

those rooted in place’

some remind me of leggy

spindly visions of

broccoli florets 

–LE - 7/26

Mesquite-dreams - Ink'n brush and watercolor pencils in watercolor sketchbook - 8x5"

Save Our VA Tucson Protest 7/10/26

Three of us anchored the picket line at the Tucson VA's Ajo gate from 6:30-8:15am for the morning shift change.

Responses were similar to last few weeks, 75-85%. Only one obvious negative today... the guy with flicked middle finger... We just laughed and waved... probably just made him angrier... oh well...

The morning was cloudy, which is novel... at least this week. So what sunshine beat down on us was 'hazy'... But it was still hot, and I was sweating by the time we headed home.