(Scroll down for previous shows) Show #91 Lakota Lessons of the Bow and Arrow 6-11-’14 The Lakota Way of Strength and Courage: Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and Arrow - Joseph M. Marhsall III Show #89 Book of the Century Club 5-28-’14 The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today - Martin Seymour-Smith  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #87 The Yoni: sacred symbol of creative energy €�4-23-’14 The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power - Rufus C. Camphausen  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #86 Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) In Haiku€� 4-9-’14 Issa’s cherry blossom haiku more cherry blossom haiku Peter Matthiessen trailer koto music Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Show #85 Spring Haiku Companion€� 4-2-’14 Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #84 Artivism and the Hive Mind: a conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Ash Straw€� 3-26-’14 Ash’s blog Motherwit: Echoes from the Womb€� Stop the Vermont Gas Pipeline!€� - docu. trailer On Behalf Of Those Who Speak Different Languages Modern Muses   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Show #83 One Voice from Two Worlds: Native Peoples’ Stories - part 4€� 2-26-’14 Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing - edited by MariJo Moore Shinnecock dancers   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Show #82 One Voice from Two Worlds: Native Peoples’ Stories - part 3 2-19-’14 Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing - edited by MariJo Moore   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Show #81 One Voice from Two Worlds: Native Peoples’ Stories - part2€� 2-12-’14 Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing - edited by MariJo Moore   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Show #80 The Quirks and Rituals of Artists at Work€� 2-5-’14 Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - Mason Currey Modern Muses: How Artists Become Inspired   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #79 On Behalf Of Those Who Speak Different Languages: the book launch€� 1-29-’14 On Behalf Of Those Who Speak Different Languages - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Ash Straw’s blog   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #78 One Voice from Two Worlds: Native Peoples’ Stories - part 1€� 1-22-’14 Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing - edited by MariJo Moore   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #77 Firsts: The World and Haiku of Chiyo-ni€� 1-8-’14 Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master - Patricia Donegan and Yashie Ishibashi   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #76 So, What’s New, Age-Old Children?€� 1-1-14 The Children of Days: A Calendar of Human History - Eduardo Galeano Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged - Tiokasin Ghosthorse   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #75 Roots of the Tree€� 12-25-’13 Russian Magic: Living Folk Traditions of an Enchanted Landscape - Cherry Gilchrist Soul Companions - ed. by Karen Sawyer Great Law of Peace Album: Kaballah€� - Song: Oseh Shalom€� - Tal Skloot Ensemble   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #74 Winter Solstice Poetry Samplerâ€� 12-18-’13 The Beginning of the Age of the Pacha€� Winter Solstice haiku   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #72 First There Is a Mentor then There Is No Mentor then There Is€� 12-4-’13 Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #71 Thinksjoining €�11-27-’13 "Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World" and Short version online "Mohawk Stories" CD - Kay Olan (Ionataie:was) "The Real Story of Thanksgiving" "Origins of Thanksgiving" "Turtle Island: with Four Changes" - Gary Snyder   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #70 Front Circles: Standing With Mother Earth†11-20-’13 Singing an Epic of Peace First Voices Indigenous Radio White Buffalo Teachingsâ€� - Chief Arvol Looking Horse Lakotas Demand TransCanada Sellouts Leave Lakota Territory!â€� "Time for a Mass Upheaval Against the Perpetrators of Global Destruction" - Michael T. Klare "'Fight Far From Over' After First Nation Loses Bid to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick" "US House pulls bill second time to desecrate sacred Apache land"   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #69 Untranslatable: Russian Western Zen? a conversation with A. Molotkov€� 11-13-’13 A, Molotkov The Inflectionist Review   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #68 Off the Grid . . . Lock: Latin American Socialist Movements and Beyond - part 5€� 11-6-13 Where Is Cuba Going?€� - Paul Richard Harris U.N. Urges End of U.S. Embargo on Cuba for 22nd Time€� - Louis Charbonneau "Cuba shuts down private cinemas and video-game salons" The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil documentary Before Night Falls€� - film Andes Cosmos - Treasures of the Incas - CD Latin America’s turbulent transitions: the future of twenty-first century  socialism - Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #67 The Rant Is Too Damn High Party€� 10-30-13 "Pepsi, Nestle, Coca Cola Revealed as Big Money Behind GMO Labeling Fight" “1 in 10 Young People Is A Victim of Sexual Violence: The Unspoken Epidemic€� CD Undefended Heart€� - Hans Christian   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #65 Off the Grid . . . Lock: Latin American Socialist Movements and Beyond - part 3€� 10-16-13 Bolivian president to sue US govt for crimes against humanity "Oil Drilling in Planet's Most Biodiverse Area Gets Green Light" Anti-Oil Activists In Ecuador: We Stand Up For Yasuni€� Latin America’s turbulent transitions: the future of twenty-first century  socialism - Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #64 Autumn Haiku Companion: Moods in the Season of Transience €�10-9-13 Haiku Calendar Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle The Way of Zen - Alan Watts Japanese aesthetics â€�An Interview With Sam Hamill: Love, True Peace and Political Poetry   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #63 Socio-Poetic Travelogue: a conversation with Ayshia Stephenson€� 10-2-13 Performing Fusion Theatre Arts at the Armory, Somerville Theatre Festival - tickets Richie Ramsay - Mother Earth’s Cry€�   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #62 Happy Birthday, Rumi!€� 9-25-13 The Essential Rumi - translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne Rumi: The Big Red Book - Coleman Barks Divan-I Shams-I Tabriz - edited and translated by Iraj Anvar Rumi: Thief of Sleep - translations by Shahram Shiva Sufi flute music (ney)   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #61 Off the Grid . . . Lock: Latin American Socialist Movements and Beyond - part 2 9-18-13   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #60 Off the Grid . . . Lock: Latin American Socialist Movements and Beyond - part 1€� 9-11-13 Latin America’s turbulent transitions: the future of twenty-first century  socialism - Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes Articles: Peru's isolated Mashco-Piro tribe 'asks for food’€� "Latin America: Class Struggle and Resistance in the Age of Extractive Capitalism" Naomi Klein: Why Big Green Groups Can Be More Damaging Than Right-Wing Climate Deniers€� "The Not So Bright Future of Green Energy" "Why Whole Foods Is Scoring Big Points in Detroit: Food justice activists  worried that Whole Foods could jeopardize local businesses teamed up  with the company to work on solutions" "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearlessâ€�: Reclaiming Indigenous Lands In Honduras" "Swelling Colombian Protests Against 'Free Trade' Met With Militarization" Documentary: "The Power of Community How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #59 Watershed Moments - Nicaragua and Myanmar: a conversation with Tony Bellizzi€� 9-4-13 Hope for the Children Nicaragua music and images€� Burma traditional music€� Aung San Suu Kyi   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #58 Every Now and Zen: a Buddha from Koreaâ€� 8-28-13 A Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of T’aego - translated with commentary by J.C. Cleary “Son Buddhismâ€�   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #57 The Temperament of the Artist€� 8-21-13 €�Modern Muses: How Artists Become Inspired€� edited by Mankh. Why must art imitate reality? - Jon Rappoport Milton Nascimento singing Guardanapos de Papel/Paper Napkins€� Leo Masliah - Portuguese lyrics by Carlos Sandroni   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #56 Buen Vivir: the practical philosophy of the Andean tradition and beyond€� 8-14-13 Sumak Kawsay: Ancient Teachings of Indigenous Peoples Living-well in harmony and balance with Mother Earth€� Buen Vivir: a brief introduction to Latin America’s new concepts for the good life and the rights of nature Latin Pulse New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North,  South and Central America - Edited by Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado  Alvarado Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism - Roger Burbach, Michael Fox, and Federico Fuentes  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #55 The Oilgarchy: It’s Rigged!€� 8-7-13 Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta - Gore Vidal Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores - Greg Palast "Big Oil Controls the World | Interview with Greg Palast" What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing - Peter Rugh How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon€� - Nick Turse The Tyranny of Oil€� - Antonia Juhasz Drive-thru Theofascism - Mankh   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #54 Is This Orwellian Or What? 7-31-13 Why I Write - George Orwell 1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show#53 The Renaissance Inside: a conversation with Alan Semerdjian€� 7-24-13 In the Architecture of Bone€� - Alan Semerdjian Quiet Songs for Loud Times - Alan Semerdjian http://alansemerdjian.com/ http://alanarts.com/ Modern Muses: How Artists Become Inspired impeach the monsters: New Dawn haiku one breaths primal sanities!   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ #52 (r)evolution: 1-year anniversary show€� 7-17-13 (show #s indicate previous conversations) Arya F. Jenkins - show #49 Austin Aoyagi - show #21 Tony Bellizzi - show #29 Sylvia Carter - show #13 Elena Botts - show #21 Lee Camp - show #s 12 & 40 Tiokasin Ghosthorse - show #11 Evan T. Pritchard - show #27 James Buchanan - show #44   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #51 Summer Haiku companionâ€� 7-10-13 Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle Haiku Calendarplus more “Elixirâ€� Yang Ying   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #50 Divine Dissatisfaction: what to do? who to be?€� 7-3-13 Blessed Unrest - Paul Hawken The Magic of Findhorn - Paul Hawken Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth (6 min presentation by Paul Hawken) wiserearth: the social network for sustainability   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #49 At the Crossroads of Meditation and Activism: a conversation with Arya F. Jenkins€� 6-26-13 Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery Into the Heart of Life€� - Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West€� - Michaela Haas and His Holiness the Karmapa CD - "Calling the Perfect Master" -Lama Chenno Jewel Fire: a Collection of Buddhist Poems€� - Arya F. Jenkins The (Un)Occupy Movement€� - anthology  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #48 The Phallus: sacred symbol of creative energy - part 2€� 6-19-13  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #47 The Phallus: sacred symbol of creative energy - part 1 6-12-13 The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power€� - Alain Danielou The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power€� - Rufus C. Camphausen Woman Shaman: the ancients  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #46 Jorge Luis Borges: Wheels Within Dreams Within Labyrinths Within Libraries Within Mirrors" 6-5-13 Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings - Jorge Luis Borges This Craft of Verse - Jorge Luis Borges  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #45 The Klerikos of Writing and Publishing€� 5-29-13 Show #44 The Solid Work of Ghostwriting: a conversation with James Buchananâ€� 5-22-13 James Buchanan - Orchard Writing Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction - Jack Hart Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #43 Deep Simplicity: the poetry of William Staffordâ€� 5-15-15 Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems by William Stafford by William Stafford, Laura Apol (editor), Jerry Watson (editor)  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #42 Mother’s and Mother Earth Dayâ€� 5-8-13 Arise and Bow Down to All Nations - Central Park Manahatta Mother’s Day Proclamation CD Ksa by Ghosthorse http://www.myspace.com/ghosthorseksa http://www.ghosthorse.biz/ First Voices Indigenous Radio  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #41 a silence closely resembling stupidity - part 4: readings from Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent translated by Cedric Belfrage - 5-1-13  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #40 "a conversation with Lee Camp: Free-range vegetarian-fed comedian" 4-24-13 Lee Camp’s website Moment of Clarity Show kickstarter page Kickstarter website  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #39 a silence closely resembling stupidity -part 3: readings from Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continentâ€� 4-17-13  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #38 a silence closely resembling stupidity - part 2: reading from Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent€� 4-10-13  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #37 a silence closely resembling stupidity - part 1: reading from Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continentâ€� 4-3-13  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #36 Between the Bylines or how i learned to surf the web and learn some shit€� 3-27-13 axisoflogic commondreams censorednews alternet dissidentvoice globalresearch projectcensored democracynow paulcraigroberts shut em down€� - public enemy  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #35 Paul Reps: Pathway to the Marrowâ€� 3-20-13 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones - Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki Zen Telegrams - Paul Reps gold and fish signatures - Paul Reps PaulReps.com Unsung Heroes and the Question of Zen in Haiku Poetry Ray Kane  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #34 The Bucky Doesn’t Stop Here€� 3-13-13 It Came to Pass, Not to Stay - R. Buckminster Fuller "Do Your Own Thinking€� Nerina Pallot - Buckminster Fuller€� Buckminster Fuller Last night I dreamt of him: Buckminster Fuller Force that drives the flower brings Grace to caterpillars Slowly creeping Drunk with meaning Things unseen are not unmade And I am just a little thing Made like all others Humble as a bumble bee My heart set on the moon Full force feeling Here is meaning Things unseen are not unmade How was it, how is it, how was this great world grown? Things unseen are already there Slowly creeping Drunk with meaning Things unseen are not unmade  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #33 Think Outside the Cage: a way of waking up to the very life we’re living€� 3-6-13 John Cage playing amplified cacti and plant materials with a feather John Cage about silence John Cage - Ocean of Sounds wikipedia info  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #32 Physics and Metaphysics: the Tibetan Buddhist perspective€� 2-27-13 The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality - His Holiness the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation DalaiLama.com The Buddhist Channel Jewel Fire - Arya F. Jenkins "Nagarjuna and Quantum physics: Eastern and Western Modes of Thought"  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #31 Rhythm, Syncopation, and much more: Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa€� 2-20-13 Thieves of Paradise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It" "Anodyne"  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #30 It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know: Poetry of Tennessee Williams€� 2-13-13 The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams - ed. by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis (New Directions) Tennessee Williams Memoirs  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #29 Free Speech Zones and Community Centers: a conversation with Tony Bellizzi€� 2-6-13 Hope for the Children Foundation The Vault Zero Gravity Full of Grace€� trailer Hozho†trailer  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #28 Actions Speak As Loud As Words: a conversation with Christine Rose 1-30-13 Changing Winds Advocacy Center STAR: Students and Teachers Against Racism rosepetl5 @ aol.com Indian Country Today Native Sun News CD Ksa€� by Ghosthorse http://www.myspace.com/ghosthorseksa http://www.ghosthorse.biz/ First Voices Indigenous Radio WBAI  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #27 Sitting In Your Chair And Going Somewhere: a conversation with Evan T. Pritchard€� 1-23-13 The Center for Algonquin Culture The Way of the Heron Idle No More No Word For Time: The Way of the Algonquin People Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York excerpt fromHenry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York Meta Epstein - harp1 & harp2  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #26 Winter Haiku Companion€� 1-16-13 essay - Unsung Heroes and the Question of Zen in Haiku Poetry Show #8 Haiku: Being in the Moment, Flowing with the Seasons€� shakuhachi flute Haiku - R. H. Blyth Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master - Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi Endless Vow€� The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle 2013 Haiku Calendar  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #25 Put Simply, The Problem Is Complexâ€� 1-9-13 The Complex: How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives - Nick Turse Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated - Gore Vidal The Militarization of Indian Country - Winona LaDuke with Sean Cruz The War You Don’t See - John Pilger Singing an Epic of Peace - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Dwight D. Eisenhower - Jan 17, 1961 text video  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #24 Creation Myths: The World Anew€� 1-2-13 A Dictionary of Creation Myths - David Leeming and Margaret Leeming One Man’s Mythology - DVD impeach the monsters: New Dawn Arctic Refuge: A Gathering of the Tribes - Soundings of the Planet  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #23 Number One Son: breaking religio-spiritual stereotypes€� 12-26-12 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction - Timothy H. Lim The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism - Alexander Roob God’s Grandeur and Other Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins A Coney Island of the Mind - poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Singing an Epic of Peace - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) En for alle - Skruk  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #22 Another Turn of the Sun: hymns and poems€� 12-19-12 The Secret Destiny of America -Manly P. Hall (the parts on Columbus are questionable) Dawnsong! - Askia M. Toure Rumi: The Big Red Book - trans. by Coleman Barks How to Paint Sunlight - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Singing an Epic of Peace - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) BBC Documentary: Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet Great Hymn to the Aten http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/aten.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten http://templeofaten.org/hymns-to-aten.php Psalm 104 Sun Song Wouldn't you want me at daybreak all up into your sky, your hair, a firecrackered twilight still sparkling in our minds bells on my moccasins walking like an Egyptian the taste of every birdsong on my tongue whether you want it or not, Sun song whether you seek it or try to avoid it, Sun song. Nighttime is ungraspable and so is this ball of fire but if you let the rays touch your skin "you are the One, the only One"  - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #21 "Young Artist Series launch: conversations with Elena Botts and Austin Aoyagi" 12-12-12 a little luminescenceby Elena Botts ElenaBotts @ gmail.com Click here to view "State of Discord". music by Austin Aoyagi quailleenthusiast97 @ yahoo.com Extreme Heat - published in the anthologyThe (Un)Occupy Movement   ~ Austin Aoyagi The heat was unbearable. As the flames danced around his body, he started to perspire. Beads of sweat flowed down his skin, forming a river as they approached the ground. The temperature began to creep upward slowly. With every second, it became harder to breathe and the man felt as if he was going to suffocate. What an awful place, the man thought. Am I the only one who has to suffer this cruel fate? As soon as that thought passed through his mind, the man noticed a long, winding line of men in suits. Although the sight was peculiar at first, the man realized something even stranger: the manner in which the men were walking. They seemed relaxed, at ease, unimpeded by the extreme heat that filled the atmosphere. Isn’t that odd? the man thought to himself. How can they feel so comfortable in this dreadful heat? Suddenly the man’s attention was diverted, as the cuff of his sleeve caught fire. As the flames spread to his hand, the pain engulfed him, dulling his senses. Immediately, he was inundated with thoughts about the prospect of survival. However, strange as it may seem, the flames dissipated, almost as quickly as they had come. Mystified, the man blessed his luck, but this occurrence raised questions in his mind. Where am I? What is this place? Bewildered, the man sought  answers, but none were forthcoming. I know, he decided. I will ask the men in suits. With that decision, the man was a step closer to finding the answer that he was looking for, although the answer was not one that he would want to hear.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The next morning, the man was determined to discover an answer to his question, regardless of the significance it might have. Reinvigorated by the drive of determination, the man was slow to realize that his body had become acclimated to the heat. While the flames frolicked in the background with a fiendish joy, a sense of uneasiness still loomed over the man; a nameless dread hung in the air, replacing the discomfort that the heat had once caused. At that instance, the endless line of men in neatly dressed suits emerged, moving through a barren wasteland of dried, cracked ground. The man’s heart jumped, skipping a beat. The flames, inter- spersed throughout the landscape, flared up, licking his skin. As the heat pressed against him and his breath grew restricted, the man began to sweat profusely. His thoughts became clouded and he nearly missed his chance to confront the mysterious figures. However, the man regained his composure and the initiative that he required presented itself at just the right moment. “Excuse me, sir, do you know where we are?€� the man inquired. The crowd erupted in laughter, suggesting to the man that his question was beyond ridiculous. Why, isn’t it obvious?€� the suited figure responded slyly. We are in hell.€� As the man gasped, the crowd released another round of raucous laughter. In disbelief, the man muttered, can’t be. It just can’t As the man began to wrap his head around his grim fate, questions started to float into his mind. As he put his thoughts into words, the man asked, Why are you here?†With a grin on his face, the man who had provided the initial response stated, I am a banker. I loaned money that I did not have, I illegally foreclosed homes, and I printed a country into a recession.€� Curious, the man went down the line, posing the same question to each of the men in suits. One man said, I am a lawmaker. I created laws that favored the corporations and seized rights from the citizens of my country. Another boasted, I am the founder of a multinational business that valued profit over human lives, crushed any and all competition no matter the cost, and prevented breakthrough technology that could have revolutionized the world in order to maintain the status quo. Finally, the last man to speak stated, I am the leader of a nation. I started unnecessary wars based on lies and propaganda, I slaughtered millions of innocent individuals, and I ravaged foreign countries of their resources and freedoms.€� Puzzled, the man asked, With all due respect, why am I here? I may have sinned, but I did not do anything that was nearly that evil. Well,€� the man who was the leader of a nation retorted, you stood around and watched.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #20 The Prophet Motive: the choice is yours 12-5-12 First Voices Indigenous Radio - archive, November 29, 2012 "Hopi Message 2012 'World Waters at Risk' Prophecy"&Sign Avaaz Petition Last Real Indians - Chase IronEyes Deciembre 21 - Tiempo del Pachakuti Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age - Gregg Braden The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions, and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders - Thomas E. Mails The Maya End Times - A Spiritual Adventure: Maya Prophecies for 2012 - Patricia Mercier Mayan Drums  Of Prophecies and 2012 - written and compiled by Mankh  And the end and the beginning were always there  Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.   - T.S. Eliot (from his poem Burnt Norton€� in Four Quartets) Much has been said and written about these so-called End Times€�. While some regard it as a time of doom, others consider it a renaissance or  long-awaited Age of enlightened consciousness. The Earth itself perhaps speaks loudest, as severe weather patterns and   imbalances reveal. During an interview on First Voices Indigenous Radio, Doug George-Kanentiio, an Awkesasne  Mohawk, called the changes in weather, climate revolt€�. The three Abrahamic religions refer to End Times€� . . . but have they forgotten to add a new Beginning?! Meanwhile, the Evangelicals are pining for The Rapture€�, where the chosen ones  will be miraculously saved. Chosen by whom, however, remains a mystery. The ancient Mayan calendar indicates that a 5,100 to 5,200 year cycle will end (and a new one begin) on December 21, 2012, when the Earth and  Solstice Sun align with the Milky Way (~26,000 year cycle), a process called galactic alignment  though the past decade or so of weather extremes plus the North Pole shift indicate that the process has already begun. Some Natives call this Age we are living in The Great  Sweat€�. The Navaho as well as the Hopi Traditionalists say that we are  in the process of entering, or have already entered, the Fifth World or Age (of consciousness) and that the path from Fourth to Fifth requires  much purification. Other American Indian names for Fifth World are: Many Colored Earthâ€� and Changeable Earth€�. Mayans call this Age,  Fifth Sun or Creation. Aztecs, the Sixth Sun. Incas, the Age of  Meeting Ourselves Again. And there are more such explanations. According to the Hindu calendar (with its mind-boggling lengths of ages, called yugas) we are in the midst of a Kali Yuga (Dark Age), an age of  devastation and purification. Part of the prophecy of Kali Yuga is that the appearance of a being on a white horse will end the discord. Luckily, this is to be followed by a Satya Yuga, a golden age of truth, light, equality, and blessedness. In other words, End Times€� may  actually mean: the end of empires! From the Amazon, the prophecy  of the Eagle, Condor, and the Quetzal tells that a balance of Indigenous  wisdom and the technologies of science will save us. The Anishnabe People Seven Fires Prophecy€� tells that the seventh fire lights the eighth and final fire. Other phrases to describe what’s happening are: The Great Turning€� and The Shift. Reading  between the lines, the prophecies seem to say that, when it comes to how you respond to these changing times: the choice is yours. And that  gives new meaning to the chosen ones€�.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #19 Allbook Books Fun-d Drive and Multi-Cultural Holidays Roast€� 11-28-12 Index of Books and Authors To Purchase Books and Other Items No Conspiracy Theory -- A Small Group of Companies Have Enormous Power Over the World - Andrew Gavin Marshall Ancient of Days - William Blake Future Shock; The Third Wave; Powershift - Alvin Toffler Revolutionary Wealth - Alvin and Heidi Toffler The Three Wise Animals - Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., with illustrations by Alice Melzer my GOD has an O   some spell G-d as if there is a risk of insult a chance for smiting my GOD has an O round as an apple the moon the sun the earth . . .   this could go on and on like Os do like Ouroborous or standing ovations or orgasms Oh! it’s nice to see you once again   my GOD has an O round as my right testicle round as a Norwegian’s face in summer as another round of drinks round as been-there-done-that found another ball to play with as a merry-go-round or golden ring   or the Nothing they say we all come from live with go to when all our rounds are over  ~ Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) - from Adam Had No Earthly Navel ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #18 Telling Stories and Giving Thanks: a conversation with storyteller Kay Olan, Wolf Clan Mohawkâ€� 11-21-12 CD - Mohawk Stories Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community - Festival the last weekend in June "Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World" booklet (really short version online) Akwesasne Freedom School Native Authors Tree of Peace Society Two Row Wampum Renewal Six Nations Indian Museum Saratoga Festival Iroquois Indian Museum has events all year Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation - Douglas M. George-Kanentiio Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #17 The Rhythms of Life: a conversation with David Amramâ€� 11-14-12 www.davidamram.com Modern Muses: How Artists Become Inspired The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation as Spirit Guides by Stephen D. Eddington with foreword by David Amram Books by David Amram: - Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat - Vibrations: A Memoir - Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac small sampling of albums: - No More Walls - Live at Musikfest! - Three Concertos David Amram: The First 80 Years€� - trailer a film by Lawrence Kraman  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #16 Watts Up: to eff the ineffable€� 11-7-12 Audio or Video:: The Houseboat Summit - Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg on conforming to society Being Completely Here and Now The Real You Books: In My Own Way - An Autobiography Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: a mountain journal The Way of Zen the Deep-In€� View TAO: The Watercourse Way - with the collaboration of Al Chung-ling Huang   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Technical Difficulties: during the week of October 31, Hurricane Full Moon Sandy knocked down the Lines!  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #15 Emotionomics 10-24-12 Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century - ed. by Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa - Nnimmo Bassey Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins Austrian School of Economics Fair World Project Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Gerald Celente, Max Keiser, Michael Hudson Tar Sands Blockade “Banking With Hitler Father Guido Sarducci’s 5 Minute University   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #14 The Ins and Outs of Education€� 10-17-12 ChildSpirit Institute - understanding & nurturing the spiritual life of the young The Secret Spiritual World of Children - Tobin Hart, Phd TED Talk: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity Heliopolis - track from Chris Nicola’s CD Novus Digestor with Eli Maniscalco on bass and he is also a respective singer-songwriter from Long Island. contact Chris: housesofgrafitti @ yahoo.com Chris’ music at SoundCloud   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #13 From Earth to Hand to Mouth: a culinary conversation with food writer Sylvia Carter€� 10-10-12 EatWild Polyface Farm A Conversation with Beekeeper Mary Woltz of Bees’ Needs Dive! the film Food, Inc. Temple Grandin   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #12 Seriously Funny: a conversation with comedian & activist Lee Camp€� 10-3-12 http://leecamp.net/ As Lee’s website states: Moment of Clarity: The Rantings of a Stark Raving Sane Man€� If you want the paperback book but do not want to use Amazon, you can buy  it directly from Lee, $14.95 plus shipping. Just send an e-mail to LeeCampMail@gmail.com   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #11 Relationalspeak: The Antidote to Doublespeak - a conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nationâ€� 9-26-12 Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged Redshift The (Un)Occupy Movement CD Ksa€� by Ghosthorse http://www.myspace.com/ghosthorseksa http://www.ghosthorse.biz/ First Voices Indigenous Radio WBAI October 8, 2012 - Repairing the Sacred Hoop To better understand Indigenous perspective, books by Vine Deloria, Jr. Tiokasin has an essay, The Lakota Star Nation,€� in the anthology, Soul  Companions: Conversations With Contemporary Wisdom Keepers -- A Collection of Encounters With Spirit - edited by Karen Sawyer (O Books,  2008). To donate clothes, etc. for the Lakota Peoples - Changing Winds Advocacy Center Also, Simply Smiles So the universe eyes€� in the same way a tree apples and space stars.€�  (You can always turn a noun into a verb because every thing is also an event, a happening. Houses are housing.€�)€�   --Alan Watts, from Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal, p.65   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #10 Dios me libre de hombre de un libro 9-19-12 Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition - Jean-Yves Leloup, trans. by M. S. Laird, O.S.A. (Gracewing/Paulist Press, 1990-2003). The Bushman Way of Tracking God: The Original Spirituality of the Kalahari People (Atria Books, 2010). The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell. The Ladder of Lights - William G. Gray (Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1968). Lee Brown on 4 Races prophecy CD - Music of the Kalahari San: Instrumental Pieces and Songs of the Healing Dance  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #9 Sound and Sense and Nonsenseâ€� 9-12-12 Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story... lift the great song again.€� - Homer CD Ksa by Ghosthorse, song Allison’s Eye. http://www.myspace.com/ghosthorseksa http://www.ghosthorse.biz/ Singing an Epic of Peace Poetry As Insurgent Art - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (New Directions Books, 1975 - 2007). The Odyssey - Homer, trans. by Robert Fitzgerald (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Quite Early One Morning - Dylan Thomas (New Directions Books, 1954). God’s Grandeur and Other Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins (Dover Publications, Inc. 1995).  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #8 Haiku: Being in the Moment, Flowing with the Seasons€� 9-5-12 Though its roots go back at least 2600 years, haiku began to flourish in 17th  century Japan. Akin to Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophy (and other  Asian arts), haiku poetry encourages attention to the present moment as well as keeping connected with the pathway of seasons. A wonderful way to align with nature, enhance one's mindfulness (as well as Zen  mindlessness), and hone your verbal skills (being so short, haiku require great precision!). Five Masters: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Chiyo-ni. Haiku One Breaths: a voice through a tangle The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho´, Buson, & Issa - edited by Robert Hass (The Ecco Press, 1994). The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku - William J. Higginson with Penny Harter Haiku - R.H. Blyth (The Hokuseido Press, 1949, 1981). Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master - Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi (Tuttle Publishing, 1998). The Haiku Anthology - edited by Cor van den Heuvel (W.W. Norton & Company, 1999).   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #7 The Moments a Poem Makes€� 8-29-12 Poetry by Barbara Southard, from the book Remember  * Living Watching Words might capture a part of it. A painting might freeze an hour’s sunlight slanting across a grove of trees€ but it is living, watching, that matters most: to feel the warm sun sliding across your back, watch a progression of clouds move across a full moon, see the color of bark on a tree change to plum when the sun hides behind tumultuous branches: to be an envoy between what is seen — changing with each blink of an eye to freeze just one of those fractals in time and give back bits and pieces of the whole like tattered rags skittering across the ground * On the Bay Shinnecock Bay Rain comes down hard through thick briny air, large glistening arrows reverting back to their source, like salmon returning to their place of birth. If you stay out here long enough, you can pick up countless patterns of replication, invisible connections binding one to another. Does the fish beneath my boat feel pain? What do I owe the horseshoe crab for my existence? We are all beneficiaries of our beginnings, cousins to the terrapin poking its head out of marsh water, soul-mate to swans nurturing their young. * Moment There is that moment burrowed between clattering dishes or a fence that needs mending when there is perfection, like the flashing silver reflection of a school of fish passing by when clarity takes hold and life throws a clue: another peach to be plucked all fragrant and soft, each bite sweet, juice coursing down your face like salty tears. * Marks There’s something to be said for marks made by use — the darkened handle on a hammer, a wedding band reduced to a sliver of gold, concaved cutting board hanging on the kitchen wall. The finish is worn to bare wood next to the old door knob where knuckles have rubbed for sixty years: scrubby boy hands turning the latch just for the joy of making things happen, misshapen joints of an old man, the first fumbling efforts of a small child. * Labor Pool Workers Jacksonville, Florida They start arriving before light, climb into vans, fan out through the city to dig holes, scrape paint off ships, clean out toxic tanks in the mills lesions roiling up on scarred skin, battered hands caustic chemicals, blistering heat indecipherable faces darkened by sun.   From four in the afternoon until eight, they roll in, spill out of vans, pick up their day’s pay bandaged hand, bent back, favored foot They spider out along 8th Street, make their way  home, catch some sleep, then back before light each day, new faces mixed with old mixture of sweat, muscle and bone. * Remember Remember this Junior Brown playing the blues. Those leaves at dusk traveling to the center of your soul through conduits of deep crimson. Store this In some retrievable place, like the glass dish placed on the window sill, still holding sea-washed stones from that little town in Italy, where we walked through the woods to swim in the sea. Remember this The hummingbird that pierced your heart with beauty outside the window of the cafe near the Bay of Fundy or the snow geese rising up of one mind like Buddha out of the marshes in coastal Virginia. Store these In some retrievable place, to be brought back when your eyes dim and your body no longer answers your bidding when ghosts of past failures crowd out the incandescent feel of a baby’s hand in yours. Remember these The multitude of sacred moments that marched onward from that first sentient spark to the last flickering light. Remember * Kenai Peninsula at 11 P.M. The mountains reflect a golden glow from the sun low on the horizon petal pink snow nested between plum colored rocks deep green of the tree line the lake silver against a blue haze turning to dusky pink turning to pale blue turning to buttery yellow low on the horizon. The glacier nearby melts into the sea and the sea reaches out. * The Back of Barry’s Head If you sit behind a boy an entire school year even if you’re only in 4th grade, the back of his head provokes all kinds of interesting observations, like the way the sun from the window reflects off the shiny black slickness of his perfect hair, or how the back of his neck, so luminous, is covered with whirly designs of fine down, or the way he moves his shoulder in a shrug under his pressed pastel shirt and how his elbow shakes back and forth, erasing mistakes. I can’t remember what I learned that year, although I’m certain it was something useful, nor can I remember any of the girls’ names I surely played with on the playground, but I remember the back of Barry’s head in all its complexity, like last night’s dream. * lyrics for The Pines€� by Joseph Langham with Peter Rowan on mandolin and Wild Billy Kneebone on guitar The pines are a song unto themselves Fruit that remains from an ocean of time Like the wind when they bend like the bow It’s always worth a little more than you think You even got and you know sometimes how you think you got a lot You’re just learning the ancient wanderer’s code While you ramble down the road Then a vision overtakes you and the weights about to break you And your heart begins to cry while anything that remains In pure form be the moment and connect the wire You’re a storm to move the flag that’s causing all the stars to black out The pines are a song unto us all and if you listen real close I bet you’ll find there’s a song right there all the time And you’ve always got a little more than you give yourself the credit for then a song somehow just opens every door The pines are a song unto themselves they’re just a song Even when they’re still and the wind doesn’t blow They’re the song the silence knows And it’s always worth a little more than you think you even got And you know sometimes how you think you got a lot * Copyright © 2012 individual authors.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #6 Zen There, Done That€� 8-22-12 "the art of artlessness" - Alan Watts "Zen, which is fundamentally about the emancipation of all beings, is  unfortunately sealed in a square box called Zen. " - Soen Nakagawa Roshi   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Zen Master's Life Is One Continuous Mistake by Ginger Williams, from Watching a Sleeping Pig if the jar is cracked  he drinks if the day is grey  he smiles if the doorway is narrow he'll squeeze through stopping to meditate on his face before he was born "what about the trees?" we ask "a willow is a willow is not" he replies i mention one hand clapping  he whacks me with a stick (the zen master is so foolish we must smother our laughter) when we wonder about emptiness he answers "a bluebird carries the sky on her back"   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ten Bulls by Kakuan Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings - Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki (includes Ten Bulls) The Way of Zen - Alan Watts Endless Vow€� The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa A Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of Taego - J.C. Cleary Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) and I Ching (Ye Jinn)  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A Net for the Moon Free of the nets free of the ropes moon on the water.   - Buson We try to capture moments at the local restaurant as a child tries to assemble a Mr. Potato Head on the restaurant floor asking what goes where until he figures how, himself. The holiday window lights blink on and off and on as the cars roll by on Main St. Trying to capture moments is like chasing butterflies with a net, or a net thrown into a pool of  water to catch the moon. Yet we go on, capture moments with pen, with song, with photo, watercolors once the ink stops to dry€ yet as we capture them, how many moments have rolled by un-noticed? Or in not capturing have you noticed the lights blinking, and the way glasses of wine unhitch the tongue, how the conversation rolls by solving all manner of problems with heartfelt words and a smile, all manner of problems solved as a child finds the right mouth and eyebrows for Mr. Potato Head, as the moon seems to have caught me staring out the window and then made sure there was something i too would be assembling. - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) from A Net for the Moon ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #5 Literary and Life Mentors: A Tribute to Gore Vidal and Ray Bradbury€� 8-15-12 "There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem." - Gore Vidal "WORK. RELAXATION. DON'T THINK. FURTHER RELAXATION." - Ray Bradbury Gore Vidal: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia The Decline and Fall of the American Empire Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking - Collected Sex Essays Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson Ray Bradbury: Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You Dandelion Wine This Attic Where the Meadow Greens Fahrenheit 451 (novel and movie) The Martian Chronicles (novel and movie) Hans Christian’s website - song “To Honor Your Greatness from CD Undefended Heart€�.   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #4 The (Un)Occupy Movement€� 8-8-12 "They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people€, we go on..."   - Ma Joad, in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath The (Un)Occupy Anthology: Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent Worldâ€� Liza B’s video site, Nothing Official€� If You’ve Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You’ve Lost Your Way - Russell Means and Bayard Johnson Occupy This Album - song featured, Something’s Got to Give€� - Matt Pless Also, look into the various Movements of Latin America, representative of socialist democracy.   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #3 Unsettling: A White Man’s Guide to Indigenous Literature 8-1-12 Today a sadness lies in the fears of Americans who do not know what to do  except react in warmongering and pacifist jingoisms - trista pena.†- Tiokasin Ghosthorse Cornhusk Dollâ€� from CD Mohawk Storiesâ€� CDKay Olan ionataiewas14 (a) hotmail.com Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community Fonda, New York. www.nativeauthors.com Allbook Books publications by Tiokasin Ghosthorse Children of the Sun: prosetry unplugged Redshift Other books cited: Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future edited by Melissa K. Nelson And Grandma Said ... Iroquois Teachings as passed down through the oral tradition by Tom Porter (Sakokwenionkwas) Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World basic call to consciousness edited by Akwesasne Notes The Militarization of Indian Country - Winona LaDuke with Sean Cruz Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions - John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North,  South, and Central America edited by Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado  Alvarado For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook edited by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and Michael Yellow Bird Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World - Paul Hawken Native American History - Judith Nies The Elder Brothers: A Lost South American People and Their Wisdom - Alan Ereira Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduatdo Galeano Flying With The Eagle, Racing With The Great Bear: Stories From Native North America told by Joseph Bruchac Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York - Evan T. Pritchard Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Way of Animals - Jamie Sands & David Carson Native Authors.com Writing Tip: Write a poem, story, or whatever from the perspective of a tree, an ant, the rain beings, etc.   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show #2 Media and So-Called Political Poems€� 7-25-12 The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.€� - George Orwell   * epiphany (composed on 11/11/11) one homeless vet gets one summons for sitting on one bench in one little veteran’s park in one little town in one state in one country for which that one soldier fought for what he thought was freedom  - Russ Green © 2012.  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dear Lord, They Prey Predator drones from predator nations we'd be safer if they stuck to Playstations "Reaper drone" aircraft a grim nomenclature by those who are numb to the beings of nature these lords of death are out for the kill with citizen foot-soldiers footing the bill Men stuck in a Darwinian paradigm what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine i know it's a big pharma pillage to swallow but these unmanned drones are killing our tomorrows in the name of the Lord these lords of death prey but i pray that the Lord will keep them away NATO signed $1.7 billion with Northrop Grumman to keep their unarmed drone global surveillance hummin' but these dunderheads and their gadgets have no vision only sophisticated in the 'art' of division the drone of a bee is far more appealing or continuous chords with musical feeling but predator drones from predator nations leave innocents crying from amputations.  - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) first published at Axis of Logic   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Nobel Peace Prize Goes To. . . a child in Iraq a sparrow in Detroit a polar bear a wildflower the one cell in Rove’s brain that is peaceful a chunk of ice floating away from the top of the world the soldiers who have held their gunfire the soldiers who have left the war the soldiers who refused to become soldiers a sparrow in Afghanistan the Myanmar monks the Australian abos a Darfur grandmother a Hopi grandfather a Taoist a true Christian the funniest Jew you’ve ever heard the Shakers the Quakers the Pacifists the half-baked weed smokers the devotees of Walden Pond the whirling Dervishes the drunk in the alley who has only damaged his own knuckles against the cold brick wall in the heart of winter a fool in a field in the middle of anywhere who is feeding a sparrow with one hand and waving a white flag with the other - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)  from impeach the monsters: New Dawn Works cited: €�George Orwell: Why I Write€� The Century of the Self - parts 1 - 4 The (Un)Occupy Movement: Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Vintage Books, 1998. Axis of Logic - Finding Clarity in the 21st century mediaplex Quite So Crazy€� - song b Joseph Langham © 2012. Have you ever heard anything quite so crazy like a sunset on a mountain that drags your heart to worship there’s a lot of love in this world but it’s too hard to find have you ever heard anything quite so lazy any self-made wise man will tell you give away all your money cause it has no value doesn’t the humor sometimes almost kill you but then a good dose of laughter just might heal you   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Show # 1 Between the Linesâ€� 7-18-12 A PRAYER BETWEEN HERE and NOW    i These letters the inspired: g e s t u r  e s  or jesters of One we can only open to. Between these letters - - motions and conversations with bells untranslatable.  ii These words the bits and pieces of   a   deeper    love. Between these wordsâ colors of moments that cannot be painted.  iii These lines the ribbons trailing along a breeze of breaths: Between these lines---- a thousand poems that cannot be written. Travelers make their way holding fast to the center of the wheel. And those who must stay hold fast to the nothing so all may proceed smoothly - Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), from Singing an Epic of Peace Books cited: The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions, and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders - Thomas E. Mails, Penguin/Arkana, NY, 1997. The Little Zen Companion - David Schiller, Workman Publishing, NY, 1994. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ return to top of page Copyright © 2012-16 individual authors. Website © 2012-2016 by Walter E. Harris III.