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It is an ill wind that blows no good for wall street. Oil a hundred dollar a barrell?
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Good growing weather for the house of Morgan (Dos Passos)

Taking a path similiar to Camille? Clay and Doreen better get their umbrellas and a row boat out. Going to follow the river valleys straight up to Virginia? But storms remind me of women, a force of nature. Only meteorologists and poets can follow their ways.

it's what they said, it will skirt around the southern appalachian mountains and cruise up along the river valleys to the northeast, so the virginians are safe.

unfortunately, dubya will leave crawford soon and head on over to the white haus.

they'll be neighbors again.

one wonders if dubya's aura goes away when he splits the scene.
personally i have never wanted to be anywhere around the asshole, demurr to expectorating shouts from my amigos, they do it quite well enough.

we got a progressive friends meeting over here, i don't know man some of those quakers are inbred, sounds like you got some trouble over there.

i sit in silence, listening tyo my breaths and the volinimous yeah silence, and let the folks speak out when they will, form follows function, meeting,

a sweet easy unfolding.

thanks for heading me back tio meeting, it was cool. hugged my old lady friend, she is getting frail now, but a strong presence.

women are not the most stormy ones. they suffer the most though.

I don't know jim, the vibes felt wrong, maybe it was the way I looked, I got an ugly burn on my hand. Forgot to put a bandage on it before I left home. I had a white shirt laundered and ready to wear but it had shrunk and felt tight and uncomfortable. I wore an old blue denim work shirt with my name and the White's Truck Stop Logo on it. Also I need a hair cut bad and I had just chopped my beard back and it looked ragged. He was reading my name off it calling me Jacky like being real buddy buddy, that is what they told in marketing 101 always try to use the customers name make it personal. The last time I was to Meeting it was in a different building. The old building was across the street from a synogogue. This new meeting was on the other side of town. In a temperory building while they were erecting a new meeting house. A huge new meeting house. The guy seemed real proud of it. I am telling you he was pissed. Have you ever heard of a "pop corn meeting" The first meeting I went to was in Washington DC. There was a woman who would get up and sing THe Star Spangled banner. That is the way he was treating me. I asked him if I could beg borrow or buy a copy of Quaker Faith and Practice. He could not get it right then because he did not want to go back in the meeting room. Too disruptive I suppose. So he asked me if I had a pencil wanted to get my email address. THe bottom line was I spoke twice in ten minutes. A no no, ya know jitterbug said that you can't be any better than the worse you recognize. Maybe my jaws were clenched. But normaly when I am angry I know it, sometimmes I even get the adrenalin shakes. I wonder if that is where the name Quaker comes from, you know quakes equals shakes.On the way to the meeting I got lost. Stopped to ask a cop for directions, looked into his eyes and thanked him. His eyes were blue and full of light. This guys eyes reminded me of the the ones I saw in baltimore just before I got hit upside the head with a two by four. now jitterbug said you always get whats coming you never have to ask. So I am sure it was all for my good. But that guy reminded me of those christanz churches that seat five thousand. The old meeting house was cool, I felt good vibes there. No more quacker meetings for me jimbo. I found a peace vigil on thrusday after noons going to do that. Catch my quacker buzz on Cecil's sunday stream. Aboout the storms and women? You are the male feminist here, you seem to know them well. To me they are a mystery and a force of nature. But I am not normal, and it has been a quater century since I have had a chance to study one up close. I kind of look like a biker I guess, hair kind of long full beard built like a a gorilla my knuckles almost drag the ground when I walk. Makes my day and a petite gray haired woman asks me to reach her something off the top shelf of a super market shelf. Makes me feel like my vibes are ok.
I am glad your day went well, mine did too, in a way. That Going to write the Nashville meeting and resign. Just a gesture, I am sure they have forgotten all about me. Have not been in touch with them in twenty years. I feel it is the honorable thing to do. Going to join a new church called The First Church Of It Beats Me. Fuk organized religion. I don't like chanting jim, it gives me the he be jeebies. Well I do like to listen to Greggorian chants sometimes.

is all over and out.
the parts in blue I am having posters remorse about, tempted to delete them.

Jim the Quakers do good works, that takes organization, THe American Friends Service Committe, etc.

But for me there will be no more organized relegion. Going to go my own way. THe Quakers saved me from something bad. I will always be grateful. Time for me to move on.

I'd like to hear more about what happened in that meeting.

I found some meetings to be stuffy and conservative....my local meeting has its tedious moments as well, but need to see the empowerment that it gives, empowerment for peaceworks.

The zen Center of New Orleans has gone up to Starksville, Arkansas, where their affiliate zen center is, Arkansas State.
Robert Livingston studied with a japanese teacher in Paris for ten years, then moved to the big Easy in the 80's, visited there from Shreveport, stayed at the Lee Circle Y, all these things no more, gone todo.

Maybe you should experience a group silence, man. The shambhala group in Austin, Ginsberg's Buddhist school, it's cool.

Personally I am gonna do a combo of Quaker meetings and also the Zen JuKai vows, and also have controlled moderate im·bib·ing im·bib·er
sweet!

A popcorn meetying when Quakers get stoned first, it could be a joyous occasion, clenhjched jaws are silly,

last Sunday a woman spoke twice, not a usual thing, but fly with it, so what?

I guess we gotta make our choices. i know several folks in local meeting who are peace activists and a lot of my own healing has come thru this meeting.

lo que sea?

tai chi, anyone?

you in my sangha anda danca routine, crazy trucker, wooahh!!!