Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Michael Cristofer’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning drama, “The Shadow Box,” explores death and dying. It takes place on hospital cottage grounds that house terminally ill patients. Three patients are confronted with the truths, expectations, and disappointments of their lives. Their loved ones are equally affected by their terminal illnesses. The three stories, [...]

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When in a dark
warm and cozy
cave it’s easy
to feel secure and
powerful.
But when blinking
in the hot sun
exposed to a mob
of feet which might
be moved by the
mere mention of
POETRY
to bruise a skinny leg
or even squash
life out of her,
then she retreats
to the cave in her
heart where courage
beats a rhythm
to speak truth by.

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self exploration and universal understanding. You start your forecast of major transits on Friday when Pluto, the planet of regeneration and soul evolution, will turn direct at 26º Sagittarius. Now is the time that you should strive to see the overall view of the world [...]

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La Joya
613 Tennessee St.
Vallejo,
707 642-1993
open 7 days a week
9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Recently my partner had a craving for a burrito. Since we haven’t settled in on a favorite taco truck, we got in the car and drove. In just about any direction on a main street in Vallejo, you can find Mexican [...]

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in process
growing old and fat
62 and 6 foot 2
some special symmetry
this numerology
stretching out
this frame of me
blending edges concealing
adipose poundage
(Young girls die
for breasts like mine)
While some men eat to live,
I live to eat.
I’ve tired
of too much exercise.
I’m bored with dieting.
I’m 62-years-old
for God’s sake!
Haven’t I earned the right
to enjoy myself?
Yes, I’ll die
better for having loved eating
than for [...]

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The Russian blood winter
running from a heart so cold
eternal frigidity
began before it started
Keeping a numbing way
the essence of me
in Moscow winter eternal
The infernal Hell of promised sinners
the only respite
my frozen life seeks as reprisal
my life I shudder
in mocking tribute
to those I leave my space
to inflict cruelty upon
each glimmer of hope
another [...]

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Sparkly glowing eyes illuminating darkness
    Infatuation begins with alluring smile
        Grows with hug-me-tight kissable pucker
            And ends with brokenhearted teardrops
            Unconditional love madness without reason
        Letting go of illegitimate expectations
    Accepting as is habitude not
Making partner into someone else
Gratified desire screaming with delight
    Earthbound dreams struggling to exist
        Hyperactive racing pulses can’t get
            Enough is never enough said
            Lust differentiates love from sex
        Flirtatious tease vis-á-vis [...]

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Belated Mother’s Day by martha cinader mims

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What is PO? by matu feliciano

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Plane of View by adam david miller

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I Always Catch the Old World Diseases

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I was sitting in my garden recently and from out of nowhere, a ladybug landed on my hand. I watched the tiny red and black creature make its way up my forearm. A few seconds later, I heard the distinctive sound of a hummingbird as it rapidly flapped its way toward the [...]

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The Sunset Chinese Cook Book
The people that publish Sunset Magazine, also publish a number of cook books covering a wide variety of ethnic cooking. Being a great fan of chinese cooking, (I really think the best cooks in the world are the Italians and the Chinese, because of their great emphasis on fresh veggies, avoidance [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week on Tuesday when Mercury, the planet of communication at 1° Leo will turn retrograde in motion. Mercury will spend most of the month moving retrograde in the sign Cancer creating a month full of retrospective and review focused on [...]

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Organic Karma Café
707-252-6400
1030 Third Street, Napa
After a rigorous yoga class, where does a hungry yogi eat? Sometimes the answer is at the closest place, yet principles and good intentions sometimes prevail. The Organic Karma Café, which I discovered in Listen & Be Heard’s Eating Independently guide, had to be tried.
Situated near the intersection [...]

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