1 Standing on new hip Overlooking Zen garden Muscle cells grow strong 2 Cherry blossoms come Cherry blossoms also go Life and death will visit 3 Zendo peace cranes fly Dancing in Mother Tree’s breath Soaring in goodness 4 Old parts find new parts Junkyard better than graveyard Polish and drive on 5 Practice Aipeedo […]
Last night a friend in Santa Maria, California, where Stephanie and I lived for five years, sent me an audio/video clip of the third episode of Michael Jackson: The Verdict, the three-part docuseries streaming on Netflix about Jackson’s 2005 child molestation trial. There I was standing in the Santa Maria Courthouse parking lot tent city […]
Deception is a devious form of political corruption. But that didn’t stop Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro from trying and failing to bamboozle the good people of Archbald when he showed up unannounced at State Rep. Kyle Mullins’ office for a secret, yet well-staged, meeting with a handful of timid so-called opponents of the borough’s planned […]
About halfway through the 30-second video two arms reach out to shake hands. The words “Secret Deals” appear on the screen, Of all the powerful phrases packed into Democratic Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan’s “urgent” call to action against the expanding data center invasion, suspicion about secret deals is the most troubling. And the most […]
During the Civil War in 1863, armed with shotguns, pitch forks, clubs and axes, 300 Perry County volunteers history remembers as The Noble 300 defended their Pennsylvania homeland border against an expected Confederate Army attack. Conscripts of conscience, they felled trees and built barricades. Mostly they showed up steeled with bravery, loyalty and commitment to […]
