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Encouraging news indeed! No such thing as 100%, anywhere - but this would seem to justify a little optimism. I'll uncross my fingers, but keep the toes on one foot crossed for ya.

From a few years back, when a cabling issue contaminated neutrino time-of-flight measurements at CERN, making it appear they were traveling faster than light: The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve superluminal particles here." A neutrino walks into a bar. Guess you had to be there. Or maybe be ...

Hunter-gatherers contribute nothing to the GNP - only good consumers do that. So do your part for your party, your country, your white Christian god, and Consume! It's our patriotic duty. Soup - it's what's for supper!

Spiritual vs religious, yes - I was alluding to (G)od metaphorically, or perhaps in the Deist sense - as a vast, diffuse universal presence rather than a cranky Judeo-Christian patriarch peevishly smiting when not begetting. That moment of revelation was so stunning it still gives me goosebumps to r...

savor each day
as though it were the last
it just might be

wylde, good to see your byline again! Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, science doesn't have to be cold & bloodless (though it's too often taught that way) - it should be exciting & passionate, arousing the imagination through the discovery of unexpected connections. It was almost a religious epiphany t...

those hints of cleavage
of full, rounded derriers
sure do sell
a lot of deodorant

this northwest wind
a broom sweeping away
humidity

blue sky
but here in the woods
last night's rain still falls

the dog stops dead
what's this -
a garter snake!

Oh my god, Doreen, that's awful. So sorry you have to endure this. Please accept my condolences for your shock & loss. Damn.

crossing myself

enjoying the haibun - beautiful snapshots of life's humble moments

fallen raptor
gently I move his corpse
out of the road

high eighties
low humidity
laundry on the line
dog snoozing in the sun
should be out hiking
or cutting brush
house could use a coat of paint
but ya know what
too hot for that shit
so I guess I'll have a beer
and read my new
Scientific American
instead

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previously posted at that other site, but apropos for this thread....

godspeed

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