Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

“Vantage Point” is the new political thriller from Columbia Pictures, directed by Pete Travis, and it does hold your attention on more than one level.
Leaders of several countries gather in Salamanca, Spain, for a conference on “terrorism.” The city’s central square holds up to 20,000 people and it is crowded as the American president [...]

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I came home from the Monday night Vallejo town hall meeting, had a later dinner than usual, and turned on the television set. It was time for NBC’s “Medium.” For those of you who have never seen it, the show’s format is based on a woman who is able to help solve heinous [...]

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We are at a crossroads here in Vallejo. While our city council deliberates whether to declare bankruptcy, or not, I can tell you one thing for certain, the state of the arts remains in the hands of the people who create.
Whether we are in an official bankrupt state or not, the arts are never first [...]

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I do not know which aspect of the 2008 Presidential Campaign is considered more annoying: the ultramarathonlike length of the event, which began at least a year ago for most candidates and even earlier for others, or the inevitability of the choices of front-runners (Old School Senator John McCain versus New Changes Senators Barack Obama [...]

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Sometimes for us, Friday nights melt into Saturday mornings, since we close late and re-open early. It’s just one long creative jam of free expression, learning, creating and general carrying on by people of all ages. So, here’s the pics going from Friday night open mic for poetry, when we had plenty of creative folks [...]

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Welcome to another week of self exploration and universal understanding. I would like to wish all of the mystical Pisces out there a happy Earthday. The Sun is in your sector of the Zodiac, and it’s Pisces’ time to shine in the life-giving Sun’s light. If you were born between February 20th and March 20th, [...]

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The box always gets opened.
And you will hear blackbirds ringing
as thunder claps in soft rain.
Look for the bluebirds to be chanting
Her grace in the lightning.
Sharp love lives within these spirals.

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We begin the way East,
west. Into the ocean
with many names. Animals stir
the dark inside us, like questions,
crawling & hungry. So many answers.
We cut them down,
make room & call it shelter,
a space & time of our own.
A new frontier to probe. This is
freedom. & it’s scary. We have trained
as if [...]

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for G. M.
I. THE MOTHER
The emerging impersonal
taken personally—
to crack the shell
an institution
called all-knowing love
I feared
I would be the moon
perpetually eaten
by the days—
disappointment & guilt
This is a rite
Words come quickly
& loud—
I’m not to believe in myself
“the miracle” gave her power
Yes, I laughed—
seeing this as freedom:
her weapon broken
no longer a threat in her hand
Both of us now [...]

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YOU ARE THE DARKEST NIGHT
THE NEW MOON OF ALL MOONS
THE BEGINNING OF WHAT IS
TO BE FULL
AS YOUR LIGHT INCREASES
YOUR MYSTERY DECREASES
FOR NOW I KNOW
IT’S THE SUN’S LIGHT
THAT ATTRACTS YOUR DESIRE
TO BE WHOLE
WITH LIGHT YOU NEED EYES TO SEE
AND YOU STILL QUESTION WHAT IS FREE
IN DARKNESS YOU MUST TRUST WHAT YOU FEEL
JOY AND PAIN KEEPS YOU [...]

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It was a simple act of taking;
a failure to believe:
things would drop into place
would come without our work
would awake in us
“the genius of Newton”

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