Loose Leaf Notes

1. We’ve all been doing a lot of hanging out, and hopefully it’s not all on google hangout.

2. I don’t understand the word virtual.  It’s like a double negative. Is it real or almost real? The dictionary describes the meaning like this:  almost, but not exactly or in every way.

3. A soundtrack of birdsong / a wireless wind / I’m tuned in / to the virtual reality / of sunlight warming blossoms open / and borderless skies of turned up violet / I’m plugged in / to the solar powered village / of moon and star / to the data base of the highest technology / I’m turned on / to the smart reality / in the real world wide web / of earth’s diversity / with fragrant green / life size trees / and all the very best / in graphics  -Poem written before I had a computer and when I didn’t want one. About 25 years ago

4. We dissolve like salt / overwhelmed by water / fade like a photograph / overexposed by air / Every death is a big bang / that blows up our pretense / splits us like atoms in two… Read Bardo in its entirety HERE.

5. Bardo is “a Tibetan term for an “intermediate state,” either in the afterlife or in this life when something interrupts our normal sense of certainty and our old sense of reality isn’t available to us.” – Pema Khandro Rinpoche

6. From my Facebook IN THE NEWS series: “Trump fans are primed to be angry about Obamagate — they just don’t know what it is.” Bill Maher

7. “Trump’s insistence on huge, gala convention might put the corona back in coronation.” – My Dharmacratic poet friend Will

8. I think our catbird just gave me a wolf whistle. Check it out HERE.

9. Erotic iris and lily pond with koi fish. A a restorative and happy visit and a great place to get outside to in these pandemic times. HERE.

10. Relieve anxiety HERE.

11. Famous statues around the world wearing face masks. See HERE.

12. Talk or squawk?

13. “I dream of a world where truth shapes people’s politics, rather politics shaping what people think is true.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

________Thirteen Thursday