Monthly Archives: November 2011

Balloon Bounce..

Balloons calliope tunes beauty with no rent..child wide eyed and stupefied inside the circus

Whoopee Circus Be

tent..’step right up’ the barker barked..lions growled in time..cotton candy, soft drinks and hot dogs for a dime..

Giraff was shining shoes one at a time..difficult to see him do it..funny some may think its a crime..

Audience a hippo bird picking at his back..stand up stand down comic crow complains of hackysack..blue when in the company of females..no relief sex drive will not unwind..just a little love..not talk or tall tales..just warm calm a peaceful time to find..

Down the road Mark Twain heroes fishing..give a model folks good time to find..with times this good I have no need for wishing..with love and fun to occupy my mind..Let me tickle ivory your piano..waiting to be played the finest rose..wood and strings tuned by a huckleberry..who found wood with no termites with his nose..

C’mon woman moan some blues..rich deep like you do..sound like spiritual Baptist down south..Give you a key and rhythm head down to your shoes..sing a song of flood in Toopalu..I gonna harmonize with my mouth..

Guitar coming soft..bit off funky rift..4/4 reach deep into your soul..rifts are getting long..melody so fine..natural the boy has good touchtrol

In a moment rolling..in a time you know..someone there souling..with something true to show..each note is a gemstone..dipped in honey love..each blues song reminds me..blues cooing like a dove..

Five minutes at the circus..Peace t@cftd

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A True Soul..’Sojourner Truth’

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Sojourner Truth

Courtesy Library of Congress 

Courtesy Wikipedia..Copy from Internet.
I am favorably impressed and influenced by this kind of commitment; this kind of caring..t@cftd
 
For those interested I would recommend the links..Peace T.
 
 
 
 

Dates: (~1797 – November 26, 1883)

Sojourner Truth Biography:

The woman we know as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father’s owner, Baumfree). She was sold several times, and while owned by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, married Thomas, another of Dumont’s slaves. She had five children with Thomas. In 1827, New York law emancipated all slaves, but Isabella had already left her husband and run away with her youngest child. She went to work for the family of Isaac Van Wagenen.

While working for the Van Wagenen’s — whose name she used briefly — she discovered that a member of the Dumont family had sold one of her children to slavery in Alabama. Since this son had been emancipated under New York Law, Isabella sued in court and won his return.

Isabella experienced a religious conversion, moved to New York City and to a Methodist perfectionist commune, and there came under the influence of a religious prophet named Mathias. The commune fell apart a few years later, with allegations of sexual improprieties and even murder. Isabella herself was accused of poisoning, and sued successfully for libel. She continued as well during that time to work as a household servant.

In 1843, she took the name Sojourner Truth, believing this to be on the instructions of the Holy Spirit and became a traveling preacher (the meaning of her new name). In the late 1840s she connected with the abolitionist movement, becoming a popular speaker. In 1850, she also began speaking on woman suffrage. Her most famous speech, Ain’t I a Woman?, was given in 1851 at a women’s rights convention in Ohio.

Sojourner Truth met Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote about her for the Atlantic Monthly and wrote a new introduction to Truth’s autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner Truth moved to Michigan and joined yet another religious commune, this one associated with the Friends. She was at one point friendly with Millerites, a religious movement that grew out of Methodism and later became the Seventh Day Adventists.

During the Civil War Sojourner Truth raised food and clothing contributions for black regiments, and met Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1864. While there, she tried to challenge the discrimination that segregated street cars by race.

After the War ended, Sojourner Truth again spoke widely, advocating for some time a “Negro State” in the west. She spoke mainly to white audiences, and mostly on religion, “Negro” and women’s rights, and on temperance, though immediately after the Civil War she tried to organize efforts to provide jobs for black refugees from the war.

Active until 1875, when her grandson and companion fell ill and died, Sojourner Truth returned to Michigan where her health deteriorated and she died in 1883 in a Battle Creek sanitorium of infected ulcers on her legs. She was buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, after a very well-attended funeral.

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Splatter Dapple Love..

Poet running rain is falling thunder lends a beat..stars aswirl will bring sunny day earning..world

Sun At the Hilltop..

esctatic turning..school some children learning.. 

flames fly from my feet..as I try to beat worldturn I start to burning..

jump fly over ditches..laughing there in kind..thought of what is riches..how riches defined..

wonder there is love..strain- reach bits of feel..thunder fright a dove..emotion stolen..in time real I find.. take home

memory blind or binds dreams to seconds of the real..

A restaurant where lovers used to dine..battered wood that withstood..now to call the ghosts..felt love spent in century past.. built eternal it lasts..for love..a

memory that hosts..

Song to play drive heartbeat..drum pound sound light laser..solid laid down cold with heat..piano player who played blues, funky a beat spacer..blues, folk,  music that spoke thus repeat..

clear notes spoke a time..music thank you music..beauty melody strong music evermore..singer sings a rhyme sound  laid down to my soul..

running back to my babies door..

Down into bowles of the earth..down into the dirt..broke down to atomic size..love light sense comes roaring in..moments spent at birth..moment love sees senses realize..

Older there an old friend..rides torpedo well..singsong about his ride to death..moment think what is left..what can lend good love..to future children drawing breath..

Wanderlust thunders..lightning for the soul..moves forward strong with purpose good..space with no control..some engage others..stay in a fixed role..tell all in control what better should..

half or more never understood..

Running in the alley..running blind in pain..how can any know the way I feel?  Sunshine past that beckons..a passionate stain..dance ahead to seconds that are real..

barefoot through wet grass smell..roses jasmine too..past the old graveyard..down to the town..down the trail leads to the woods..past the wishing well..delight at

old-time memories around..

This feel in this moment..reverent sweet so calm..peace in purpose, love a helping hand..beauty seen not expected applied like a balm..a moments peace to sense all where I stand..

beauty there on mother nature’s land..

Today is a good day..Peace t@cftd

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Justice? or Politics..

English: Michael Jackson graffiti. Skan, Piers...

I have made my feelings concerning the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray clear.  I do not think it is proper for the judge to award damages.  I do think the amount of 100 million dollars is nothing save laughably high. 

I do think that the Jackson family would think twice about airing their feelings concerning this trial..and the doctors lack of culpability..if they thought it would stop the payment or court order of such an amount.

It is called ‘strategy’. 

Here is some strategy.  Michael Jackson would have and had before gotten whatever he wanted in the way of pharmaceuticals.  I do not think the doctor was anywhere near him at the time of administration of the fatal dose. 

I think a great amount of irrelevant information about the personal life of the doctor was presented and allowed under a false premise.  There was no need, nor was it pertinent to drag timelines other than the two months this doctor worked as personal physician to Mr. M. Jackson.

Once again the light bulb flashes.. once the lie is seen it cannot be unlearned..

Peace t@cftd

The Calm..before?

I have been looking at public and sponsered TV programming.  I have seen

I think this was more than a 'training exercise'..(cartoon pic from IN)

that there are possibly planned..and certainly dominant amount of war films being presented. 

Through history, I think in great error, our heroes have been those who distinguished themselves in such actions as war. 

I am long past thinking the TV schedule and mass media is any kind of accident.  I hope there are no ‘war drums’  in the immediate future; still-in history that is how economic things were changed..how great inventions were designed in necessity..purpose was found in the renewal and false hope presented by war…by winning. 

A great many politicians, in greatest delusion, feel this is the way to go.  It is not.

War is destructive waste of resource.  It is what it is.  I, nor should anyone, need reminders of ‘the glories of war’.

There are no winners in war!  Ever.

I beat a peace drum proudly and forever.

To the young who think glory, adventure or other perks..please take a moment..look..perhaps go to the VA..talk to combat vets..the life you save may be your own..Peace t@cftd

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Stupid and Uncaring..

Hello..I copied the news article from a news service.  I wrote this..

It is depressing that our government finds money to

'I promised you nothing..then took what you have..this time..moreso'..

destroy in war but cannot understand the needs of its own.  Perhaps the world is beyond national boundaries and we are growing to it.  It certainly is something to think about..leaders, historically on one hand say and rightly so..’murder is horrible’.  They would never take a firearm and put a bullet through a person..yet they will sign a declaration of war.  What is war?.many times nothing more than an extension of the economy.  Many times an excuse, finding license in things like ‘the spoils of war’ and ‘all’s fair in love and war’..I have to wonder how this can be? When the economic attacks started on social security I thought, as did many others, it would be seen for what it was and turned around..denying medical care is unacceptable..as soon as it becomes fact..what will happen..for many I feel it will be the last straw..I hope this is resolved well..for the people..not some greed soaked liar..

I think it misappropriates the tax resource of our economy to wage war for any reason save defense.  I do think defense can be used to the point of being counterproductive for life on this planet.  I think that concerns us all.

Peace t@cftd..

©AC.28.11.11.arr././

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s become a symbol of sorts for the federal government’s budget dysfunction: Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, doctors will again face steep Medicare cuts that threaten to undermine health care for millions of seniors and disabled people.

This time it’s a 27.4 percent cut. Last year, it was about 20 percent. The cuts are the consequence of a 1990s budget law that failed to control spending but was never repealed. Congress passes a temporary fix each time, only to grow the size of reductions required next time around. Last week’s supercommittee breakdown leaves the so-called “doc fix” unresolved with time running out.

A thousand miles away in Harlan, Iowa, Dr. Don Klitgaard is trying to contain his frustration.

“I don’t see how primary care doctors could take anywhere near like a 27-percent pay cut and continue to function,” said Klitgaard, a family physician at a local medical center. “I assume there’s going to be a temporary fix, because the health care system is going to implode without it.”

Medicare patients account for about 45 percent of the visits to his clinic. Klitgaard said the irony is that he and his colleagues have been making improvements, keeping closer tabs on those with chronic illnesses in the hopes of avoiding needless hospitalizations. While that can save money for Medicare, it requires considerable upfront investment from the medical practice.

“The threat of a huge cut makes it very difficult to continue down this road,” said Klitgaard, adding “it’s almost comical” lawmakers would let the situation get so far out of hand.

There’s nothing to laugh about, says a senior Washington lobbyist closely involved with the secretive supercommittee deliberations. The health care industry lobbyist, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to make public statements, said lawmakers of both parties wanted to deal with the cuts to doctors, but a fundamental partisan divide over tax increases blocked progress of any kind.

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