My yunka Charlie

My uncle Charlie

He'd come take me fishing

The first salmon we caught

Would be

Filleted on the spot

And

Eaten right then and there

Uncle Charlie lives in the wind

My Place is lovely in the spring

At 3500 feet

You might notice the ridges

You might notice the creeks

You might notice the trees x10,000,000

You might notice the gullies

Everything I planted

and

Everything I didn't

Is

Coming out of it's winter funk

Spring means all that will live

Is

Smiling

None of the above

Music sounds better Live

Just the opinion

Of

An

Opinionated musician

No Pro-Tools

No digital

No scratchy 33s

No warped CDs

No AM

No FM

No satellite radio

Live

McGyver

The new tasty sammich from McDees

Supposed to be a floor mop

But

Deep fried and served up as food

But

Oh so full of fiber

And

It stays with ya all day

I've got you MacGyver swinging

1 Pair of 1977 Honda 750 fork tubes

Used to bend 1/2" rebar at sharp angles to reinforce the corners of some concrete I was pouring for a foundation, just before winter set in.

Fork tubes also make great 'cheaters' for breaker bars when dislodging very large nuts on stuff like differentials.

Mostly the forks off my crashed 750 have a nostalgia unequaled

It's gone but

Not forgotten

*Main event* South Loomis Quickstep Bluegrass Band

South Loomis Quickstep Bluegrass Band
My call

Ivan Najera
Spectacular nylon string fusion

George Souza
Extremely versatile, funny, If he still had a band they'd headline

Grease, Grit, & Grime
Local blues

Good improv work

John Girton
Man of a thousand song, great classical jazz sound

I'll marvel at Bison

Mother bison and calf

Dunno!

Guess I coulda said brown recluse spider

Guess I coulda said Dugong

Guess I coulda said Humans...



Dint

Dint

Dint

Phoenix AZ?

Lived in Phoenix

Never been to Gryphonopolis

So all that I can comment on is Phoenix

Three years in AZ and I noticed a distinct way of life

Arizonans do things their own way(cool)

Arizonans do things their own way and they don't work(hmmmmmm)

Arizonans do things their own way and they don't work

and

   they know it(Gimmee a break)



Gryphon might not win but should

Think

Instead of developing a strong flexible mind

Schools, churches, books

teachers, preachers and parents

Fill your head with possible facts that are more often notions



Roger Waters was very close when he penned

"Hey teachers, leave them kids alone"





Or

As

they

say

in

Texas

"buy ya books and send ya to school and whatta ya do, eat the teacher"

Done

Done
First family

Was a 20 year nightmare

of the soap opera

of the Sid and Nancy

Type

The nightmare that keeps on giving

Done
Second family

To quote Leonard Cohen

"

Everybody knows you love me baby

Everybody knows you really do

Everybody know that you've been faithful

Give or take a night or two

Everybody knows you've been discreet

There were so many people you just had to meet

Without your clothes

Everybody know

"

Good
Third family

Warm

loving

helpful

accessible

opinionated

a constant resource

faithful

acceptably dysfunctional

It's time

Hey bunky, we be runnin outta time

Macro test set #1

Humans can't seem to see where they come from

Humans for the most part being unable to see behind themselves

Have kissed off their beginnings

Humans for the most part don't truly believe themselves part of nature

Humans for the most part see themselves apart from nature

Humans for the most part think nature is just something to be abused

Humans for the most part think nature is just to be used and thrown away

Like a used condom

Humans for the most part think nature is just plain unbreakable

Humans for the most part think, ahh that's where I go wrong

Humans for the most part don't think

Humans for the most part let someone else think for them

Poor eyesight

Humans can't seem to see where they come from

A block from Downtown

The XXVII Procrastiad

Um let's see

Small crowd

Forgot to train

Forgot to promote

No one showed up

The rest didn't care

some respondents said it was too much work

I think some respondents thought responding was too much work

There is a splinter group that isn't that lazy, just procrastinators

They did however say that next week would be a better time to start planning

I volunteered to bar tend the next symposium

Neither

One of the signs of a truly small mind is that you have 2(two) choices.

Two directions.

How about Muse?

How about agnostic?

How about opting out?

My uncle Charlie, the least educated yet smartest person I've known counseled me never to follow any human, and also never to lead any human.

Didn't understand it when he said it, but as I age, it all makes sense.

Find your own answer.



You always have more than two

Is the future relative dear:

Dear Great, great, great, great grandchild:



          Hopefully You are reading and not just looking at it.

Perhaps the art/ability of reading printing on paper hasn’t been lost.

Perhaps you aren’t even my great, great, great, great grandchild.

Our genetic thread wasn’t known for intelligence nor survival.

We mostly were known for knee jerk reactions and avoiding reality.

You are mostly, probably someone that went digging in the yard,

Looking for worms,

and

found a coffee can.

Is there still coffee?

Are there still cans?

Perhaps cans have passed, due to the total depletion of the resource necessary.

In that can you found an 8.5/11’ sheet of “Staples” printer paper.

A Hewlett Packard 940c DeskJet printed the words.

Have we stopped killing one another?

How’s the weather?

Is there still music?

Have Rap and Hip Hop worn themselves out like Disco?

Has the sun begun to dim?

Oh well…

Have a nice day! [(;-}

Open window

Open window
Yep you'l see an open window

And

Somewhere out there on the ground

Is

The substance of the rest of your life

Right where ya pitched it

Nothing matters

But

Her or him

Bruises
Cause if you're luck, just lucky

Ya done fell head over heals, punch drunk down the drain

You'll pay for it later

But

Who cares

Friends
Who are those people

And

Why do they insist on speaking to you

And

Won't they go away so you can concentrate on the most incredable human on earth

Job? what job!

Brain tanned mocs

Weddings, funerals, Oscar parties

Explain why it comes out for special dates.



Hmmmmm

Think think think

Thought thought thought

Consider consider consider

He's pondering

Oh yeh

I know

I made em for special ocassions

Nada

I don't prefer it

It just works out that way

It's like trying to describe or justify a bowl movement

If I go to sleep at 9 p.m. I wake at 3 a.m.

I don't question it

I'm gonna be dead a long time

No question

Next, Chapter IV

Chapter IV
The comedian Gallagher used to issue smocks to the audience

To keep the shit from splattering on them

Today's governing politicians(All)

Don't seem so inclined

Next, Chapter Three

Chapter Three
If you don’t know it it’s new, not knew, but new

How about manners

How about patience

How about language

How about silence

How about acceptance

Not fixing your warp drive so you can get to the next galaxy

But

Figuring out what it will take to sustain the planet we live on till our star burns out

Yeh that’ll happen

Oh Crap
Oh crap, it started raining again and my cardboard soap box has started to wilt

Gotta lose some weight, these Chinese cardboard boxes don't hold up well.



Ta Ta

Next, Chapter two

Chapter two
Probably 4 million years ago the animal which would become “us” appeared

Somewhere after that these animals developed language.

Funny thing, then they discovered they had nothing of consequence to say.

So they started Plinkying{making up stuff}

They didn’t understand the stars or death or weather.

So

They made up God

They couldn’t get other Monkeys to do what they wanted

So

They made up government

They forgot how to fix or provide for themselves

So

They made up war



Weren’t them knuckle draggers clever

First, Relax

Relax
This concept will take many days

This concept will take many installments

Clear the room
The room between you shoulder

The most cluttered one

The one your parents, teachers, siblings, preachers and friends did so much to foul.

Define the project
I'm going to go for a bike ride in the rain to meditate on this...

See ya later

Mental Health

Mental Health Vertical Banner

If possible...

Yet highly improbable...

The two hardest things to achieve

Parental mental health

And

Enduring love and commitment between the parents

Then perhaps

Tenderness

Yet

A hint of the impending brutality in the world

Everything else except food is fluff

I make a great pot

According to Google my house is located across the street from Golden Gate Transmission repair

Navy bean with cooked down Christmas ham bone.

Not the greatest

But

It is what's on today

Along with back ribs

It's what's on for Super Bowl guests

Y had to ask?

Every type of fruit sections stirred

into

unaltered

un-pasteurized

un-homogenized

whipped cream

with

Mexican Vanilla

and

pulverized turbanado sugar



Washed down with an 8oz glass of 21 yr old Glenlivet

Fool Dad

Fool Dad
What you do when you're a middle child of 12

And

Your parents

Are

Already up to speed

On

The games children play

Such as

Don't get blamed

Don't get hit

Don't get short changed

Don't do any chores you don't have to

Don't let bigger sibling give ya a noogey

Don't let don't let

Don't let dad make another sibling

Tonsa Fun

rubber overalls, in a rubber room

In the early 70s my wife was in drug rehab

Her particular version of insanity had produced a set of attitudes in me

Those attitudes made it particularly difficult to stay employed

I was reduced to using “labor pools”

One morning I was sent to a basement in down town Minneapolis

The job was stacking used auto batteries

Turn em upside down so the acid would drain out

The Uni was

knee high rubber boots

rubber bib overalls

rubber jacket

no eye wear

no head cover



What is more, every drop of that sulphuric acid leached into the dirt floor

And

Ultimately into the Missippippi river 6 blocks away

desperate times indeed

The things a person will do to keep body, soul, and children sort of together

Beautiful and unusual works of art

Deyoung Museum at Golden Gate Park

That's all I've got

Think think think

Hmmmmmm.......

What if it's neither?

pause

Chicken or the egg?

Big bang or just an ordinary sexual encounter?

Nothing is either or

Life and death seem to exclusive, except each is part of the other

Black and white aren't mutually exclusive

Many humans consider themselves unique, when the truth is they are a speck of the rest of the universe.

Each is the total of time and total of substance and total of experience.

Nature is the yin to nurtures' yan

Perhaps a thumb smudge here or there



It's like debating the need for clean underwear

Even right to lifers forget to change on occasion