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Silenced songs hit wrong notes     Rhythmic deep throat breathy sighs        Pressing both sides of collapsed              Rib cage lovebirds take flight           Tangled thoughts become unread books        Glossy jacket cover collecting dust     Spineless screwy twists plotting revenge Happy endings not my specialty Primed blank canvas awaiting inspiration     Scraped palette knife [...]

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Café Rosario?Äôs Pizza and Deli 3425 Broadway St. American Canyon 707 643-5464 Monday ?Äì Friday Lunch 11:30 a.m. ?Äì 2:30 p.m. Monday ?Äì Friday Dinner 5 p.m. ?Äì 10 p.m. Saturday noon ?Äì 10 p.m. A casual comment in a yoga class led me up highway 29 to explore Café Rosario. The person who told [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast of major transit early Thursday morning when Mercury, the planet of communication, at 12º Libra will sextile Jupiter, the planet of expansion and growth, at 12º Sagittarius. The energy expressed from this sextile of Mercury with Jupiter [...]

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The 12th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is scheduled this Sunday, September 23rd. As always, it starts at noon, though this year, the first venue will be Jungle Vibes, 136 Petaluma Boulevard North (next door to where it has traditionally started, for those of you who have attended before.) I asked Geri Digiorno, founder and director [...]

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Making mistakes missing details deterrents to democracy security getting the big picture just right each error costing a thousand years.

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     This remake (originally released in 1957) stars Christian Bale and Russell Crowe. Gritty and raw, the performances were electrifying. Bale plays a hard luck rancher who volunteers to escort gun slinging outlaw Ben Wade (played by Crowe) to Contention and place him in the hands of the authorities on the 3:10 prison train to Yuma. [...]

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I want a Starbucks on each corner, a WalMart on each block, if I can’t have everything I want, then my heart will go into hock… I don’t want some bright guy for a president, I want an oil mogul for each head of state. If I can’t have everything I want, then I’ll simply [...]

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I’m the Maintenance Man at a local motel and my new duties here are going swell. I fixed the manager’s broken waterheater door, and fixed the ceiling fan in No. 4. I fixed the back door in No. 2, there’s a lot of things that I could do for you if you were the manager [...]

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              1. My religion is kindhearted compassion Taking pride in enabling others Fiercely independent loner craving soul Mates making a difference together Pragmatic realism whatever works best Discovery learning derring-do gut instincts Nothing is impossible wandering dybbuk Surpassing expectations imposed outer limits              2. Daring to dare take risks Afraid of nothing save self-deceit [...]

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Stoned Numbness by charles frederickson

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What’s the Difference Between Peace?

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Sunken Rainbow by charles frederickson

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A Poem for You by matu feliciano

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Take Me! by cyndi combs winner of the reserve best of show poetry award at this year’s solano county fair

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[tag]Compassion [/tag]is a quality that runs like a thread through all attempts, all efforts to alleviate human suffering. To suffer means, among other things, to ?carry.? Compassion means to ?carry with.? When we experience compassion, from others or in relationship toward ourselves, we are experiencing the support of another who, by truly listening and attending [...]

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