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?Äôs ?ÄúMedium.?Äù For those of you who have never seen it, the show?Äôs format is based on a woman who is able to help solve heinous crimes through [...]

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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 [...]

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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?Äôs Pisces?Äô time to shine in the life-giving Sun?Äôs 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?Äôs scary. We [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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