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We Are The Many

A friend just shared this fantastic folk-rebellion song on facebook. I am shocked it has so few views. This is a really nicely put together piece that encapsulates a number of my personal frustrations with the current state of the Union.

Please enjoy and share!


*Update >> Makana played this at the APEC dinner in Honolulu this week! Read the full story here.





Please avoid buying Koch Industries products. American Democracy needs your vote today, tomorrow, and every time you encounter a Koch brand. Choose any other brand, and keep boycotting this Plutocracy-fueling schlock until these jokers learn to keep their greedy hands off of working people's throats:

 

boycott Koch brothers

Don't buy Koch Industry Gasoline:

 

Chevron

Union

Union 76

Conoco

 

Don't buy Koch Industry/Georgia-Pacific Products:

 

Angel Soft toilet paper

Brawny paper towels

Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups

Mardi Gras napkins and towels

Quilted Northern toilet paper

Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper

Sparkle napkins

Vanity fair napkins

Zee napkins

 

Don't buy Koch Industry/Invista Products:

 

COMFOREL® fiberfill

COOLMAX® fabric

CORDURA® fabric

DACRON® fiber

POLYSHIELD® resin

SOLARMAX® fabric

SOMERELLE® bedding products

STAINMASTER® carpet

SUPPLEX® fabric

TACTEL® fiber

TACTESSE® carpet fiber

TERATE® polyols

TERATHANE® polyether glycol

THERMOLITE® fabric

PHENREZ® resin

POLARGUARD® fiber and

LYCRA® fiber

 

Don't buy Georgia Pacific Building products:

 

Dense Armor Drywall and Decking

ToughArmor Gypsum board

Georgia pacific Plytanium Plywood

Flexrock

Densglass sheathing

G/P Industrial plasters (some products used by a lot of crafters)-

Agricultural Plaster

Arts & Crafts Plaster

Dental Plaster

General Purpose Plaster

Glass-reinforced Gypsum (GRG)

Industrial Tooling Plaster

Investment Casting Plaster

Medical Plaster

Metal Casting Plaster

Pottery Plaster

FibreStrong Rim board

G/P Lam board

Blue Ribbon OSB Rated Sheathing

Blue Ribbon Sub-floor

DryGuard Enhanced OSB

Nautilus Wall Sheathing

Thermostat OSB Radiant Barrier Sheathing

Broadspan Engineered Wood Products

XJ 85 I-Joists

FireDefender Banded Cores

FireDefender FS

FireDefender Mineral Core

Hardboard and Thin MDF including Auto Hardboard,

Perforated Hardboard and Thin MDF

Wood Fiberboard -

Commercial Roof Fiberboard

Hushboard Sound Deadening Board

Regular Fiberboard Sheathing

Structural Fiberboard Sheathing


list borrowed from Dangerous Minds

the new situation

the staplesthe new hardware

One week post opp and I got a great look at the new situation. The Doc. says I'll be as strong as ever. Anyone who's ever tried to use a screw-gun gently can appreciate the one that goes all the way through...

Please send me your rare earth magnets so I can practice my new parlor tricks.

the trouble with trouble

my dislocated and broken shoulder
...a reminder from the ego-police that maybe I'm not as tough as I think, and perhaps not every bike ride is a good idea. I am having surgery today, and I'll be slowed down for a few months of recovery. Thanks to all for your ongoing support.

When you're ready to lose

explorerFear is not the enemy. The sharpest moments of clarity I have experienced, continuously follow situations threatening incredible loss. Hardwired, savage "wake the fuck up" moments chase fear for the loss of my life, mobility, status, comfort, personal health, and the health of my loved ones. Today I am moved.

Is each year another precarious layer on the house of cards? Can I continue to afford to play to win? Wisdom does come with age...but at the price of quiet terror. Perhaps this unsettling thirty-sense is something I can choose to ignore? Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new chapter, and the first line reeks of optimism.

tabitha rests

tbc_sleeping.jpgMy cat died today and I am devastated. 

Before meeting Tabitha 6 years ago I really didn't care for cats at all. I've just always been a dog person. When my dog first met her, he tried to bite her head off (literally). In the following years, she's won us both over such that today, as diabetes stole her from us, we cried together.

Tabitha was 15 at the time of her death. She is (and will always be) remembered by her mother Sara, her adopted father Chad, and brother-of-another-species Jackson. We will miss you forever sweet kitty. Your love knew no bounds.


Burning Bridges

It's been quite the year. My mind is ripe with ideas, but my hands are raw from the labor. Soon there will be time to soothe wounds healing and progress made. Arrest the gremlin that sits on your shoulder and tells you to eat chips and do little.