DREAMS

No one knows why we sleep, or what dreams do for us.
Why sleep?
Sleeping plays such an enormous part in the lives of so many organisms that it must be profoundly important to existence itself.
The benefits of unconsciousness, even in the wild, must outweigh the obvious risks of being discovered by a nocturnal predator.
Nature does not declare a Christmas Truce.
What, then, are these benefits?
What could be worth, day after day, taking such risks?

Sleep deprevation is considered torture.



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CHEAPSKATE NATION

What do people do when they lose their jobs?
If they weren't already, they start shopping at Walmart.
Preferring low prices over goods made in America,
they perpetuate the transference of jobs overseas.

DEMAND AMERICAN-MADE, PEOPLE!!!

Be proud of paying the prices that will keep
Americans working.
We need to mutually buy each other's products.

Want cheap beer? Make it yourself!

Want cheap bread? Make it yourself?

You're an American! MAKE IT HAPPEN!

BOOBS

I feel that the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis can explain our fascination with décolletage and I propose this idea to my wife.
She says that I am overthinking this, "who doesn't like boobs?"
Mmmmm.


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WIND

The summer wind off the ocean
Pushes me around.
I don't really have an answer.


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WISDOM

Summer morning;
The particular wisdom
Of large rocks.


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TONIGHT

IMMIGRATION

Immigration is America’s comparative advantage.

In the philosophy of Free Trade, America’s ability to
attract adventuresome, hard-working people from
all parts of the world could and should be such a
remarkable resource that we, as a country, need to
re-embrace this vision that once defined us so many
years ago.

Those “huddled masses, yearning to breathe free”
are different from the huddled masses who choose to
stay where they are, in their own country.

This country created itself through the regenerative
power of immigration; that immigrants, having severed
ties with their old country and old ways of doing things,
might work for, and become inspired by, a new vision,
that of the Future, for themselves, certainly, but more so
for their children.

Unlike the Tea Partiers, who are confounded by fear, and
ignorance of what can be accomplished by creative people
who believe in an idea of an America founded on
opportunity, immigrants aren’t afraid of too much
national debt. They arrive here with an unbounded optimism
in their ability to survive and prosper. They don’t care how
far down on the ladder of success they start. They only
ask for the right to grasp at the first rung.

People who are afraid of other people who choose to work
harder are right to be afraid.

Hard work is patriotic.

Tea Partiers consider themselves privileged, but economic
security is available ony to those who continue to work for it.


Work Hard.

HOW BIG IS GOD?

WEDDING POEM

My daughter, Petrel, married Jacob and these poems are for them.

Summer evening.
Opening my arms opens my heart
To you.

Colorful leaves on autumn earth.
A time to gather together again
Who we are and why.

The winter sun and moon
Are about Time
And you and me.

In the Spring,
The trumpets of the bright daffodils
Play our song.

CARL SAGAN

I just learned that if I were to cut a piece of pie in half and then cut
that half in half, after 90 cuts I would be down to 1 atom.
And then, if i counted all the atoms in the universe, I would have the number 10 to the 80th power.
Something to think about over the morning cuppa.


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SPIRALS

Days. Seasons. Years.
Spirals.
Circles elongated by Time.

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THE FALL

Realizing, on a hot Summer afternoon,
that short term memory
goeth before the Fall.


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THOUGHTS

Summer rain.
Thoughts
Allow my happiness
To wander.



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THE OPEN ROAD