Dec. 13, 2018
Mayor Caggianiano died shorty after he was elected. When I look back, I see this man, an elder statesman, carrying out his purpose. The elderly people of Lynn loved him and wanted him to "lead the city into the promised Land" as I see it. They had been very active for years, running a free lunch program out a local church. Rallying around the campaign to get him elected, I sat at Council meeting along with hundreds of seniors, and, as I wrote before, we all saw him speak "to"the Council as a man of the people. (Now I have to close this piece because it's time for lunch.)
,
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Dec. 12, 2018
Two good things have happened: my lovely nurse Dolores showed me how to use spell check. One of men out there is not old and demented, and unlike the other younger people I've known he's open minded and he follows politics. A few weeks ago he told me his mother, who is old and demented, worked on the Campaign of George W. Bush. So my wish came true. Some had a short talk with me about my favorite subject, after I came here and was told right away that "We don't talk politics."
Two good things have happened: my lovely nurse Dolores showed me how to use spell check. One of men out there is not old and demented, and unlike the other younger people I've known he's open minded and he follows politics. A few weeks ago he told me his mother, who is old and demented, worked on the Campaign of George W. Bush. So my wish came true. Some had a short talk with me about my favorite subject, after I came here and was told right away that "We don't talk politics."
Dec. 12, 2018
(I'm writing this in real time. Exiting things are going on around me. Michel Coen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. I'm so happy Happy I've been going around singing "hey hey, wad Dada. say, the bad gays to jail." But I can only sing wit in my side of the room. If I went out and sang, a little too loud, a Nurse might come and say I'm being distributive, and I'll be shoved back into my room mumbling "This is not a prison, I have rights, I won't stay in my seclusion room." I often feel this is a "fancy prison." Noone here is allowed to disturbed people. It's a Nursing home, and everyone is ill, including me. Another thing happening is workmen out there putting in a new floor. All of them are black. When I helped one of them in the elevator, he said "thank you brother." It reminded me of my life in Lynn, so many years ago. Now, I go to dinner, anxious to tell people everything I feel good about today, but the're demented or apathetic, or just too rapped up in their own concerns to listen to me.
(I'm writing this in real time. Exiting things are going on around me. Michel Coen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. I'm so happy Happy I've been going around singing "hey hey, wad Dada. say, the bad gays to jail." But I can only sing wit in my side of the room. If I went out and sang, a little too loud, a Nurse might come and say I'm being distributive, and I'll be shoved back into my room mumbling "This is not a prison, I have rights, I won't stay in my seclusion room." I often feel this is a "fancy prison." Noone here is allowed to disturbed people. It's a Nursing home, and everyone is ill, including me. Another thing happening is workmen out there putting in a new floor. All of them are black. When I helped one of them in the elevator, he said "thank you brother." It reminded me of my life in Lynn, so many years ago. Now, I go to dinner, anxious to tell people everything I feel good about today, but the're demented or apathetic, or just too rapped up in their own concerns to listen to me.
Dec. 12, 2018
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
Dec. 12,, 2018
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Dec. 11, 2018
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
Dec. 11. 2018
Those of us in CAG being Left Wing, wanted to support the most militant tendencies among poor people we had come to know. When I first got got there, I found people from Memorial Park, an old Federeralay Sububsidized Housing Prouject where conditions are abibismal, sitting in the street to protest lack of curb cuts. All these parents are poor, all are members of the FOOD COOP.
Those of us in CAG being Left Wing, wanted to support the most militant tendencies among poor people we had come to know. When I first got got there, I found people from Memorial Park, an old Federeralay Sububsidized Housing Prouject where conditions are abibismal, sitting in the street to protest lack of curb cuts. All these parents are poor, all are members of the FOOD COOP.
Dec. 11, 2018
The CAG wanted Rent Control for seeral important reaons: a campaign for Rent Contronl could solidify the community. There were several majar forces operating for change. One was Citizens For a Beter Lynn, a group of peogressive/conservitive homeowers. They had beaten back Urban Renewal by a 2-1 vote.
The CAG wanted Rent Control for seeral important reaons: a campaign for Rent Contronl could solidify the community. There were several majar forces operating for change. One was Citizens For a Beter Lynn, a group of peogressive/conservitive homeowers. They had beaten back Urban Renewal by a 2-1 vote.
Dec. 11, 2018
One of the "jobs I was given was to work with Mobilizition of Resources a Component of LEO. I was also elected to the huge Board of Dirertors, defeating my oponent in the neighborborb election by six votes, because I went door to door introducing myself and descrybimg my "platform," if elected.
One of the "jobs I was given was to work with Mobilizition of Resources a Component of LEO. I was also elected to the huge Board of Dirertors, defeating my oponent in the neighborborb election by six votes, because I went door to door introducing myself and descrybimg my "platform," if elected.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Dec. 10, 2018
My first few weeks in the City were a kind of orientatation to programs I'd be working with: the Lyyn Food Coop - where I went to a picnic in the beutiful Lynn Woods and met 50 or more happy people; I was aslo taken to the plant gates to meet 4 Union Stewards leafletting about racicm in the plant. An incredadle story which I will go into later.
My first few weeks in the City were a kind of orientatation to programs I'd be working with: the Lyyn Food Coop - where I went to a picnic in the beutiful Lynn Woods and met 50 or more happy people; I was aslo taken to the plant gates to meet 4 Union Stewards leafletting about racicm in the plant. An incredadle story which I will go into later.
Dec. 10, 2018
The leader of the CAG, Joel, was a Communist commited to working to bringing about Change at the local level - basicaly, in the long run, creating a "Commune,"like the Paris Commune, in which poor people play Leadershirp roles in the Anti-Poverty Program (LEO) - local office of the federal Office of Economic Opportunity.
The leader of the CAG, Joel, was a Communist commited to working to bringing about Change at the local level - basicaly, in the long run, creating a "Commune,"like the Paris Commune, in which poor people play Leadershirp roles in the Anti-Poverty Program (LEO) - local office of the federal Office of Economic Opportunity.
Dec. 10, 2 018
I had my first meeting with the group on my first night; they wanted to know how my background and skills would fit in with their work. They were astounded that I had newsparer experience. For a year they had been putting out a two page paper. With my knolige of typesetting and layout, they thought we might be able to put out a four page issue; with the resources we were getting from the Center for Community Ecomomic Development, because I had enrolled in the Cambrige-Goddard Graduate Program in Social Change. CCED gave my collective a grant which we could use as we saw fit. The most important thing was to expand the paper. It was our "tool" to bring "paticapatory democory" to an old archiac city. Over time, the paper, which had begun as the "Newpaper" and the name never changed, grew to 16 pages.
I had my first meeting with the group on my first night; they wanted to know how my background and skills would fit in with their work. They were astounded that I had newsparer experience. For a year they had been putting out a two page paper. With my knolige of typesetting and layout, they thought we might be able to put out a four page issue; with the resources we were getting from the Center for Community Ecomomic Development, because I had enrolled in the Cambrige-Goddard Graduate Program in Social Change. CCED gave my collective a grant which we could use as we saw fit. The most important thing was to expand the paper. It was our "tool" to bring "paticapatory democory" to an old archiac city. Over time, the paper, which had begun as the "Newpaper" and the name never changed, grew to 16 pages.
DEC. 10, 2O18
The group of people I was going to work with was called the Conversion Action Group. It had been there a year before I came. The name was taken from the concept that the GE plant, which was it's second largest in the country (the largest in Schenendey) - the plant in Lynn was home to the Aircrafct Enginre Group, and this was signifigint because in 1971 the Vietnam War was at it's height. We actually hoped that eventully GE would create goods for peacetime use. Also, the movevement, at that time, had developed the concept that Workers should be managers of the Plant.
The group of people I was going to work with was called the Conversion Action Group. It had been there a year before I came. The name was taken from the concept that the GE plant, which was it's second largest in the country (the largest in Schenendey) - the plant in Lynn was home to the Aircrafct Enginre Group, and this was signifigint because in 1971 the Vietnam War was at it's height. We actually hoped that eventully GE would create goods for peacetime use. Also, the movevement, at that time, had developed the concept that Workers should be managers of the Plant.
Dec. 10, 2018
A little flavor of Lynn: it was a poor city. As I walked along downtown streets there were shops with clothing hanging in front, displaying shirts for $ 1.50 and pants for $ 2.50. One day I saw a pair of shoes that looked really good, very inexpensise- I bought them on a hunch; they wore out two weeks later.
A little flavor of Lynn: it was a poor city. As I walked along downtown streets there were shops with clothing hanging in front, displaying shirts for $ 1.50 and pants for $ 2.50. One day I saw a pair of shoes that looked really good, very inexpensise- I bought them on a hunch; they wore out two weeks later.
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Dec. 9, 2018
It's unforunae that the nature of a Blogg is that each segment appears above previous one, so I didn't get to say much already, as I would have if I were writing a book and I could write a whole chapter on my life when I first moved to Lynn. Now, I have to think seriously about what to tell you next. Aftef years of thinking about whether to bring up this period of my life at all, now I think it's going to be very much a "NOVEL".
It's unforunae that the nature of a Blogg is that each segment appears above previous one, so I didn't get to say much already, as I would have if I were writing a book and I could write a whole chapter on my life when I first moved to Lynn. Now, I have to think seriously about what to tell you next. Aftef years of thinking about whether to bring up this period of my life at all, now I think it's going to be very much a "NOVEL".
Dec. 9, 2018
My years in Lynn were a wyearwilwild, a catacataclim of constant political and social activity, wrapped into It was a perfect place for a community organizizer to work. Dominatated by a huge GE plant with 20,00 workers, 1/ 3 of whom lived in Lynn, a very large population of poor people, many of them black - all rent payers; and, finanally, two wards on the upper side made up entirely of upper-class white people.
My years in Lynn were a wyearwilwild, a catacataclim of constant political and social activity, wrapped into It was a perfect place for a community organizizer to work. Dominatated by a huge GE plant with 20,00 workers, 1/ 3 of whom lived in Lynn, a very large population of poor people, many of them black - all rent payers; and, finanally, two wards on the upper side made up entirely of upper-class white people.
Dec. 9, 2018
Winter Snows are settling in, reminding me of when I left home in Ann Ann Arbor and moved to Mass. to "organize the working class." It was in 1971, when I gradugated from college. I had been a member of Students for a Democratic Society.Our our original goal, before the Vietam War broke out and diverted our attention from creating a new society, was to bring "participarty damacry to the communites. I think of this now because of the GM strike in Windsor.
Winter Snows are settling in, reminding me of when I left home in Ann Ann Arbor and moved to Mass. to "organize the working class." It was in 1971, when I gradugated from college. I had been a member of Students for a Democratic Society.Our our original goal, before the Vietam War broke out and diverted our attention from creating a new society, was to bring "participarty damacry to the communites. I think of this now because of the GM strike in Windsor.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Nov. 28, 2018
My head spinds, early in the morning: the news is filld with crimes (real life crimes) just as brutal as anything I see on Law and Order.
I have energy this morning. After wathing all these actors intervevied on TV, I want to finally expesss how I've felt as an Actor. Actually, I wasn't an actor only - it was a Life in Theatre, and it was Unique.
In a different atmosphere - where I'm not overberned with heath concerns, I might write a great "book" about my Life in Theatre.
I'm amazed, actuacuallly. This is the first time, in all these years, I've ACTING on this page. That means a lot!
My head spinds, early in the morning: the news is filld with crimes (real life crimes) just as brutal as anything I see on Law and Order.
I have energy this morning. After wathing all these actors intervevied on TV, I want to finally expesss how I've felt as an Actor. Actually, I wasn't an actor only - it was a Life in Theatre, and it was Unique.
In a different atmosphere - where I'm not overberned with heath concerns, I might write a great "book" about my Life in Theatre.
I'm amazed, actuacuallly. This is the first time, in all these years, I've ACTING on this page. That means a lot!
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Nov. 22, 2018
The new corporation, Iluminate, allowed a certain "opportunity" for residents to bring concerns directly to staff. Cindy, a resident, was elected President of the Resident Council. I became enamored of her. A neww phenomenon developed that upset me a great deal: "Women's Dinner's." They were declaring their right to meet without men to talk about things "of interest to women."
Things have been changing in that regard. I've been able to insert myself sometims into their "club." Tonight space was made for me because the man who's pretty much in charge of the show "convinced people I was wanted."
There's so much more I'd want to write. It's getting very late. I need to stop.
The new corporation, Iluminate, allowed a certain "opportunity" for residents to bring concerns directly to staff. Cindy, a resident, was elected President of the Resident Council. I became enamored of her. A neww phenomenon developed that upset me a great deal: "Women's Dinner's." They were declaring their right to meet without men to talk about things "of interest to women."
Things have been changing in that regard. I've been able to insert myself sometims into their "club." Tonight space was made for me because the man who's pretty much in charge of the show "convinced people I was wanted."
There's so much more I'd want to write. It's getting very late. I need to stop.
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Sept. 9, 2018
When I first came here, six years ago, I was surprised at how many aides watch Law and Order SVU. For years it's been my favorate show. I discovered even some nurses like it; I asked one why - she said because the crimals are always brought to jusice.
This is all I can write tonight. I have to get ready for bed. There's a lot more to this piece - specifically what I learneed from an episode I saw today that taught me something about what residents in this place have been telling me: construstive criscism of my behavior.
When I first came here, six years ago, I was surprised at how many aides watch Law and Order SVU. For years it's been my favorate show. I discovered even some nurses like it; I asked one why - she said because the crimals are always brought to jusice.
This is all I can write tonight. I have to get ready for bed. There's a lot more to this piece - specifically what I learneed from an episode I saw today that taught me something about what residents in this place have been telling me: construstive criscism of my behavior.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Sept. 7, 2018
A New Poem
"Look Back In Anger"
The Pain whipping around my neck, searing into my skin - a jabbing pain.
Life Blood is pouring forth.
Is this how I want to see myself leave this World?
************
In my Life I have seen great pain and great happiness.
Like Picaso when painting Guernica, he saw "great respect for human suffering."
Friday, June 15, 2018
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Saturday, June 9, 2017
Who can believe I woke up this morning thinking it's Tues.?
John and I had a great session Friday.
We're workin on my "creative genious." I finally revealed to him how I read my poetry over and over, each time thinking it's good or no good. John is so perceptive: he said: " do you really think you're poetry is doegrrele?" That word stopped me in my tracks. Now I can't write anymore. I've been stopped in my tracks. Later I'll get back up and contintue. I'll find an old poem, or write a new one. I'm also thinking of doing something in a different vein: cultural "analysis" of our dining room.
Who can believe I woke up this morning thinking it's Tues.?
John and I had a great session Friday.
We're workin on my "creative genious." I finally revealed to him how I read my poetry over and over, each time thinking it's good or no good. John is so perceptive: he said: " do you really think you're poetry is doegrrele?" That word stopped me in my tracks. Now I can't write anymore. I've been stopped in my tracks. Later I'll get back up and contintue. I'll find an old poem, or write a new one. I'm also thinking of doing something in a different vein: cultural "analysis" of our dining room.
Monday, June 4, 2018
June 4, 2018
What I meant below is that I became aware of some behaviors of mine that served to alienate me from close friends in the sixties, and then I understand better why I always insist I want to be a non-conformist. It has to do with how I feel different than other residents. Aides tell me to not worry about other people - it becomes an issue of whether I "care." This is a way of not conforming to a norm. People here don't want anybody to worry about anything.
I need to say something about what's going on outside this place. I'm so happy to read about March for Our Lives and other efforts to stimulate change at the grass-roots; also the progressive senitors who've announce a bid for President running without money from sum Superpacas.
What I meant below is that I became aware of some behaviors of mine that served to alienate me from close friends in the sixties, and then I understand better why I always insist I want to be a non-conformist. It has to do with how I feel different than other residents. Aides tell me to not worry about other people - it becomes an issue of whether I "care." This is a way of not conforming to a norm. People here don't want anybody to worry about anything.
I need to say something about what's going on outside this place. I'm so happy to read about March for Our Lives and other efforts to stimulate change at the grass-roots; also the progressive senitors who've announce a bid for President running without money from sum Superpacas.
Saturday, May 19, 2018
May 16, 2018
Since my old friend Rick Feldman, from the days of SDS, came to see me a few weeks ago I"ve had fresh new eyes to look at on how things go on here now in this place. I'm developing problems with some of the little old residends I care about the most because of dwelling on problems I had with a lot of close friends years ago that had never been resolved -- not just between me and one couple, as I had thought, but among what Rick termed "affinity groups" of people, all of whom belonged to SDS.
Since my old friend Rick Feldman, from the days of SDS, came to see me a few weeks ago I"ve had fresh new eyes to look at on how things go on here now in this place. I'm developing problems with some of the little old residends I care about the most because of dwelling on problems I had with a lot of close friends years ago that had never been resolved -- not just between me and one couple, as I had thought, but among what Rick termed "affinity groups" of people, all of whom belonged to SDS.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
May 10, 2008
Every day I sit here in my room and play songs on my my guitar as part of my struggle to "keep" going" in this place where people like me but don't understand where I've come from.
The article I read by bill ayes this morning about the memorials in Alabama - going thru the whole history of opprssion of black people, illustrates why I play songs of freedom every day.
Here's one that touches my heart: "No more aution bock o'er me, no! more, no more! Many thoundand gone.
No more lynching over me, no more no more. Many thousand gone."
I want to thank Bill again for having put something out to the movevent that captures our souls. (This is the first chance I've had to write what he put in my copy of Demand the Impossible. "David. Comrade.friend, brother -- keep moving forward! Joy and Justice, Bill Ayers.)
Every day I sit here in my room and play songs on my my guitar as part of my struggle to "keep" going" in this place where people like me but don't understand where I've come from.
The article I read by bill ayes this morning about the memorials in Alabama - going thru the whole history of opprssion of black people, illustrates why I play songs of freedom every day.
Here's one that touches my heart: "No more aution bock o'er me, no! more, no more! Many thoundand gone.
No more lynching over me, no more no more. Many thousand gone."
I want to thank Bill again for having put something out to the movevent that captures our souls. (This is the first chance I've had to write what he put in my copy of Demand the Impossible. "David. Comrade.friend, brother -- keep moving forward! Joy and Justice, Bill Ayers.)
Monday, May 7, 2018
May 7, 2008
Despite having written the long paragraph below, I still intend, of course, to overcome my writers block and get back to writing about serious social and political matters.
Several years ago I wrote a great deal of stuff in Wordperfect, intendending to edit it later and publish it on the Blogg. If I could learn how to rerieve it, sort through and choose what's worthwhile, it would be good.
Despite having written the long paragraph below, I still intend, of course, to overcome my writers block and get back to writing about serious social and political matters.
Several years ago I wrote a great deal of stuff in Wordperfect, intendending to edit it later and publish it on the Blogg. If I could learn how to rerieve it, sort through and choose what's worthwhile, it would be good.
May 7, 2008
The story below about attending the PEN retreet is there because I finally came to terms with ending the stuggle about putting on events from my past, to create a picture of what my life was like -- not just instanstances but how they made me feel. I don't want to write a "history" of my life in Lynn here on this Blogg. I want to give people a "feel" for what my life was like by descibing events, thoughts, interactions -- that shaped my experience, that brought me joy and pain.
The story below about attending the PEN retreet is there because I finally came to terms with ending the stuggle about putting on events from my past, to create a picture of what my life was like -- not just instanstances but how they made me feel. I don't want to write a "history" of my life in Lynn here on this Blogg. I want to give people a "feel" for what my life was like by descibing events, thoughts, interactions -- that shaped my experience, that brought me joy and pain.
Saturday, May 5, 2018
May 5, 2008
Again, today, I'm reading an article about unionization of charter schools. I've always supported unions; believe in public education; support community control of the schools, and I like the growing movement of alliances between groups of paremts and teachers striking for better quality education.
Thinking about this brings to mind a story from my life in the past that hardly seems could have been true. Not long after coming home to Ann Arbor in 1977, I came across the Progressive Educators Network, because I was looking for networks to affiate with. I went on their weekend retreet. It was a strange exerience. I felt out place - like "all these people are professionals, and I'm not." They all have Master's degrees in Education, and teach College. I have a Masters, but not in Education - - I had taught one college class (I forget I'm 32, there are many years ahead).
Why had I been so hard on myself? I become mentally ill. I was going through a process of "Baby steps" to become stable. I had been a professional in Lynn and a Networker. It was important to "expose myself" to a group like this. As it turned out, the group wasn't right for me . But there was also the issue of self-denegrenigration that I've been working working on in Therapy for all these years.
Again, today, I'm reading an article about unionization of charter schools. I've always supported unions; believe in public education; support community control of the schools, and I like the growing movement of alliances between groups of paremts and teachers striking for better quality education.
Thinking about this brings to mind a story from my life in the past that hardly seems could have been true. Not long after coming home to Ann Arbor in 1977, I came across the Progressive Educators Network, because I was looking for networks to affiate with. I went on their weekend retreet. It was a strange exerience. I felt out place - like "all these people are professionals, and I'm not." They all have Master's degrees in Education, and teach College. I have a Masters, but not in Education - - I had taught one college class (I forget I'm 32, there are many years ahead).
Why had I been so hard on myself? I become mentally ill. I was going through a process of "Baby steps" to become stable. I had been a professional in Lynn and a Networker. It was important to "expose myself" to a group like this. As it turned out, the group wasn't right for me . But there was also the issue of self-denegrenigration that I've been working working on in Therapy for all these years.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Noone will allow me (or, I can't allow myself), to play at work or work at play, to be a thousand dfferent people every day.
To sing songs of struggle, fashion tools of joy, to live in every moment, not as man nor boy, but just a crazy fool.
Who knowsthis prescious secret: see who has the power, know who makes the rules, recognizes the wise are often labeled fools.
To sing songs of struggle, fashion tools of joy, to live in every moment, not as man nor boy, but just a crazy fool.
Who knowsthis prescious secret: see who has the power, know who makes the rules, recognizes the wise are often labeled fools.
Friday, May 4 2008
John liked the lines of poetry I recited this morning. I've been stuggling for years put poetry on here. Emily came in; I asked if she'd read a few. She said this is the on she likes:
April Fool
I want to be an actor on a stage of make believe.
Where I can run, and laugf, and play and magic stories weave.
---No! No! No! That's just a flight of fancy; you know that's not the way. It has to be in the humdrum every day.
John liked the lines of poetry I recited this morning. I've been stuggling for years put poetry on here. Emily came in; I asked if she'd read a few. She said this is the on she likes:
April Fool
I want to be an actor on a stage of make believe.
Where I can run, and laugf, and play and magic stories weave.
---No! No! No! That's just a flight of fancy; you know that's not the way. It has to be in the humdrum every day.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Thurs., May 2, 2008
2 points:
1) people are running around all over themselves to say how handsome I am. Nobody can understand when I say I never wanted to conform.
2) I still have to deal with staff telling me, I"m sorry, I have to get back to work now." Right now, it means most to me because it has more to do with the time I have to spend with our Administrator, Emily, before she leaves for good toomorroww.
2 points:
1) people are running around all over themselves to say how handsome I am. Nobody can understand when I say I never wanted to conform.
2) I still have to deal with staff telling me, I"m sorry, I have to get back to work now." Right now, it means most to me because it has more to do with the time I have to spend with our Administrator, Emily, before she leaves for good toomorroww.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Sat. April 28, 2008
I've had a "writer's block", again, because every day something comes along I'd like to write about,but then there's something else in the news that seems more important for me to comment on; at the stime, there, such an incredrible amount of material on my computer, much of it written by well-known people, I wonder if I have much to contribute. I'm very upset now; this is hard to write
It's not that amazing, knowing who I am, that it's been sheer torture the last few days as every woman after another comes up to me and says OOO,DAAVID, You Look So Handsome. Then I say, But what about the beard? Don't you think she chopped the beard off to much? I explain again that I never wanted to be a conformsit, but nobody here can understand why I wouldn't want to be handsome.
One thing I've just learned about myself: yesterday,John said I might be meditating when I sit in silence. That's interesting! Something to explore more. Ram Dass' book is good for that. Which reminds me, I've dicovered a beutiful book of poetry by a political prisoner. The point being that I want a book of poetry and stories. I keep thinking to begin on the Blogg,
I've had a "writer's block", again, because every day something comes along I'd like to write about,but then there's something else in the news that seems more important for me to comment on; at the stime, there, such an incredrible amount of material on my computer, much of it written by well-known people, I wonder if I have much to contribute. I'm very upset now; this is hard to write
It's not that amazing, knowing who I am, that it's been sheer torture the last few days as every woman after another comes up to me and says OOO,DAAVID, You Look So Handsome. Then I say, But what about the beard? Don't you think she chopped the beard off to much? I explain again that I never wanted to be a conformsit, but nobody here can understand why I wouldn't want to be handsome.
One thing I've just learned about myself: yesterday,John said I might be meditating when I sit in silence. That's interesting! Something to explore more. Ram Dass' book is good for that. Which reminds me, I've dicovered a beutiful book of poetry by a political prisoner. The point being that I want a book of poetry and stories. I keep thinking to begin on the Blogg,
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Monday, January 8, 2018
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)