Poems of the Tang Dynasty, Part 7 (or so)

I think this brings me just about right up to the 350-400 poems I said I would post.
Anyway, it’s close enough. It is getting harder for me to be sure I’m not re-posting ones I’ve already done. So, this’ll be it. Unless I decide to do a few more sometime, which could happen.
Before that happens, [...]

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Mad Liberation by Moonlight

Re: Looney Radio 5/15/09
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
Tonight, Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
May 15th, 2009
KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm
Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at the studio).
Please set your alarm if you aren’t up at that time- we need your voice.
There are people listening
(all over [...]

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Pictures Music Frogs

First-
Looking through old photographs-
My wife is undergoing therapy for PTSD to do with my daughter’s suicide over 15 years ago, but still a significant part of our lives. She is determined to find a way to keep the good memories without the horror.
Part of the project involves remembering the good times- and finding ways to [...]

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Hear before you die, then after

Tibetan Book of the Dead-
Or, more correctly, the Bardo Thodol,
Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State

The Bardo Thödol (Tibetan: bardo “liminality”; thödol as “liberation”), Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State, is a funerary text that describes, and intends to guide one through, the experiences of the consciousness after death during the interval known [...]

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Anniversary Today

Today is the 39th anniversary of the infamous killings of four student antiwar protesters at Kent State University by members of the Ohio National Guard. Nine other students were wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Some of the students had been protesting on campus against the American invasion of Cambodia, which then-President Richard Nixon had recently announced [...]

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Sunday Soup May 3rd 2009

First, some poetry readings compliments of Librivox:
lesel-mueller-monet-refuses-the-operation
gary-snyder-how-poetry-comes-to-me
charles-simic-i-was-stolen-by-the-gypsies
sylvia-plath-daddy
sylvia-plath-ariel
david-ray-the-greatest-poem-in-the-world
Not cleaned up, so formatting is weird, from Project Gutenberg, The Life of St. Francis by Paul Sabatier:
lifeofstfrancis
By HH Shamar Rinpoche, The Seven Points of Mind Training, Dharma Teachings:
dharma-teachings
Big Pictures (click for full size):

Beautiful creatures:

Bye for now

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