Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

it will become clearer like a used bookstore run by nuns      in a grove of redwoods I looked in the mirror & couldn’t speak the language I was able to find a waiting room filled with blue butterflies from Mexico I was so happy I started flying      over the protests on a rickety [...]

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I know something about good songs. One was recorded about me in 1963. Maybe you?Äôve heard it. Maybe you?Äôve heard of me. My friends call me Jack. Back then I was known as Little Jackie. Back then millions of people were interested in my frolicking in the autumn mist with a friend who lived by [...]

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En Dikt Inne Minne Av Ingmar Bergman As I do what I do, What I do Pulls me through From the present into The future as this word Flows from the edge Of contained ink into The surface of The becoming page Satisfying the urge To mean something Which I both choose And which also [...]

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a huge crowd stood around David instamatics & single reflexes flashing ‘look at the veins on his hand’ everyone had come to see it, to say it        to pay homage to this work of genius it gave them faith in mankind the experience was almost religious -no one mentioned he was well-hung the crowd [...]

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Speechless when there’s nothing to say. Golden silence for listening to the meaning in the message the medium for acquiring wisdom with age.

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A Christmas Story by s.n. jacobson

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Running Laps in My Head by milta ortiz

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WINNERS versus WHINERS by charles frederickson

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GEE-WHIZARDRY by charles fredierickson

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what’s the point of using an arachnid any how by q.r. hand jr.

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I saw my friend Greg a.k.a. The Big Gun at a backyard barbeque during this past summer. We talked about old times, as people who have known each other since childhood tend to do, and at one point he mentioned one of those late-night, solve-the-world?s-problems conversations we had during our early twenties. Back then I [...]

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So easy to remember and so hard to forget. Lyrics that might conjure up memories of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan or maybe Billie Holiday. Memories perhaps of them in particular or more precisely of them singing the introductory lyrics to this piece. No, in particular, this is a memory of the bass player that [...]

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With the change of seasons comes the beginning of cold and flu season. Preventing and limiting the duration of colds and flu is a household art that has broad social application especially when it comes to taking antibiotics to get rid of a cold. Antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infections and as recently as [...]

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Sala Thai 807 1st St., Benicia 707 745-4331 Stepping into [tag]Sala Thai[/tag]?s doorway is like slipping into another world. The main room is narrow, long, and windowless. There are hints of smaller rooms to the back, and a corner to remove shoes. The long dark room is decorated with Thai crafts, carvings and material. The [...]

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Welcome to another week of [tag]self-discovery[/tag] and [tag]universal understanding[/tag]. Your forecast week will start on Wednesday when Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion at 23? Scorpio will square Saturn, the planet of restriction at 23? Leo. The energy expressed from this square of Jupiter with Saturn will make for a day full of restlessness [...]

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