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2009-12-11T04:18:11Z

we have moved

Another reason I do not shop at Walmart

2009-11-27T03:59:16Z

http://knowthyneighbor.blogs.com/home/2009/04/ceo-of-walmart-found-on-arkansas-antigay-petition.html

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

2009-11-26T16:27:47Z

The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg

2009-11-22T06:20:36Z

buzfree @ 2009-11-20T18:59:00

2009-11-21T01:59:29Z

pine pitch and needles

a gypsy beyond the veil of a cave
beckons me
sit silent
wade breast deep into the moon’s reflection
Iay jewels upon this mat of woven grass
heart shaped diamonds with the sparkle of a lightning flash
you know
you already have all of the answers
now
what is it that you want from me
deafened by the crash of cymbals from a darkened watchtower
I shudder as fire rains down the mountain’s stone face
drenched to the bone
without shelter
words comfort me like a storm
this looks like the place
beneath a pinhole sky
a nest of pine pitch and needles

a poem by free

Our Tuesday Nights

2009-11-19T04:02:27Z

Raichozan (Thunderbird Mountain) Zendo
We are a lay sitting group in the Arrowhead area. Offering instruction in zazen (Zen Buddhist meditation) and the opportunity to practice with the structure and support of a group inspired in the Rinzai Zen tradition.

Beginners welcome.

We meet on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30
Call 602.702.0437 or email mui@cox.net for directions

We meet at approximately 75 Ave & Pinnacle Peak Rd
In Glendale, AZ

http://raichozan.blogspot.com/

My cousin Wendy

2009-11-14T23:53:00Z

I have not talked to my cousin Wendy in years. Thanks to Facebook we have reconnected and after visiting her Facebook site I found she wrote this:

It's not that a germ will rob you of your life, but that a fear of them may rob you of your joy in living. (So, share your Popsicle with your dog.)

Its great to know we have a lot in common.

Sangha by Buz

2009-11-11T04:50:50Z

Sangha

he fills my cup with emptiness
so i could taste the nothingness
of distorted delight
and beautiful blight
sweating in sonoran sun
i'm intimate with oxygen
buddha lips ejaculate
words i wish to emulate
greed consumes the silence
a mockery of balance
the song bird rhymes
with bamboo chimes
unmasked faces
dance in their places
desiring the will
to sit perfectly still
like the buddha
you the buddha
you the buddha
i'm the buddha

Free & I did not have this problem in San Francisco

2009-11-06T04:07:36Z

NYC Cabbie kicks out gay couple for hugging

By 365gay Newswire
11.04.2009 4:30pm EST

The New York Post reported today that a New York City taxi driver kicked a gay couple out of his vehicle after he saw them hugging in the backseat.

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Paul Bruno, 27, and his partner were sitting close to one another after hailing a taxi at 13th Street and First Avenue on Monday night.

Bruno told the Post that the taxi driver, Medhat Monhamed, pulled the car over after driving only two blocks and said, “You guys have to get out of the taxi! Hugging is not allowed in here!”

The couple immediately filed a complaint against the driver with the Taxi and Limousine Commision (TLC) by dialing 311.

Bruno said, “I don’t know if it was a personal or religious thing. But it’s never OK to deny anyone a ride, especially when it’s such blatant and direct discrimination.”

A spokesman for TLC said they would investigate and take this allegation seriously, resulting in a $200 to $500 fine for Mohamed if it is his first offense.

Both men want a formal apology from the driver.

Bruno said, “He’s in the wrong place and in the wrong line of work if he doesn’t have an open and tolerant attitude,” adding, “I’ve seen a lot more go on in taxis than hugging.”

http://www.365gay.com/

Don't Ask Don't Tell - Steven Colbert

2009-11-02T02:03:49Z

Gardening This Fall

2009-10-25T23:36:59Z

These are pictures of the new plants I put in this weekend along with laying down some more grass seed.

These are pictures of my fall inner-city garden. I put it inside a dog kennel to keep the dogs out. In about 45 days I hope to have everything to make a mighty fine salad.

This is my entire back yard. There was nothing here when we moved in a little less than eight years ago. I feel pretty good about it. The backyard it getting close to what I was hoping for. I have three garden ponds. I did have five but my backyard was starting to look like a fish hatchery.

Save Me San Francisco

2009-10-25T21:40:36Z

Free found this video. It is a concert in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The sound could be better but I love the lyrics.

I used to love the tenderloin
until I made some tender coin
and then I met some ladies from Marin
We Took the Highway to the one,
up the coast to catch some sun
that left me with these blisters on my skin
don’t know what I was on,
but I think it grows in Oregon,
so I kept on goin going on right through
I drove into Seattle Rain
fell in love then missed the train
that could have took me right back home to you

CHORUS:
I've been high, I've been low, I've been yes and I've been oh hell no!
I've been rock ‘n roll and disco,
won’t you save me san francisco?

Every day so caffienated
I wish they were Golden Gated
Fillmore couldn’t feel more miles away
So wrap me up return to sender
lets forget this five year bender
Take me to my city by the bay!

I never knew all that i had,
now Alcatraz don’t sound so bad
at least they have a hella fine below (?)
If I could wish upon a star
I would hitch a cable car
to the place that I can always call my own!

I've been high I've been low,
I've been yes and I've been oh, hell no!
I been rock ‘n roll and disco,
won’t you save me San Francisco?
I've been up, I've been down,
I've been so damn lost since you’re not around,
I been reggae and calypso
won’t you save me San Francisco?

To tell you the truth
I miss everything, everything
It’s a wild, wild beautiful world
but there’s a wide eyed girl back there
and she means everything, everything,

I've been stop
I've been go
I've been yes and I've been oh, hell no!
I've been rock and roll and disco,
won’t you save me San Francisco?
I've been up,I've been down,
I've been so damn lost
since you’re not around,
I've been reggae and calypso,
won’t you save me San Francisco?

My four legged furry friend ISIS

2009-10-25T05:16:46Z

Little hard of hearing but so am I.

U2 CONCERT PICS, SPECIAL GUEST BLACK-EYED PEAS

2009-10-22T02:30:49Z

Pennsylvania pictures

2009-10-22T00:19:39Z

Those were the days my friend

2009-10-21T23:51:57Z

we thought they'd never end, and they haven't. Bob Dylan on Saturday night and U2 last night. Great concerts! Bob Dylan hasn't changed his act much over the last few years but still changes how he will do one of his songs. I was moved the most by his version of All Along the Watchtower. I do not have the words to discribe the U2 concert. It was the best concert I have ever been too. A day later I am still in awe. Simply overwhelming!

Pennsylvania Vacation

2009-10-20T01:29:38Z

WE just returned from a week in Pennsylvania. We we were at there was no television, a fading in and out radio station, and limited cell phone service. When we got home I decided to start digging my winter garden. After about the 3rd shovel of dirt I cut right through the Cox cable and lost our TV service and phone service. I am wondering if it had anything to do with my complaining about having nothing in Pa. Lots of beautiful fall pictures are coming soon. We left for the airport 5 hours early because they were expecting 12 inches of snow.

To LIve Outside the Law You must Be Honest

2009-10-17T05:56:52Z

Anyone that has taken time to learn about Barry Graham, alias Dogo knows he is a fraud. His teachings are blantantly plagiarized from other authors. He struggles to keep reality separate from make believe and his ego will not let him accept what he really is, a con artist as far as I am concerned. He trys to make himself credible by attaching himself to a little old lady that lives up the road that has everything he wants others to believe he has. It greives me to see him still smooth talking his way into other people's lives, contolling them as if they were his pet only to be trained by him.He does not accept negative comments to his posts on his own blog so I will share what I think of his latest rant here. His latest swill of words he carefully uses are about protecting one's self from the police. We must not forget he is also a self made civil rights leader. Though he talks about what he has done in the past, I have yet to see him do anything in the time I have known him that has any meaning besides promoting himself. He is trying to paint our police as some evil enemy. This is not true. I took the opportunity to learn about the police that are here to protect us. I spent quality time with them. They are just as fair minded and concerned as Barry pretends to be. They have families much like many of us do, they care for each other like we care for those in our lives and the majority are fair and decent people. Watching the videos on Barry's site one would think they are all out to get us. This again is not true. Are we a little paranoid Barry? What crime are you guilty of? Sure there are bad cops, just like there are bad and underhanded Buddhist teachers like Barry Graham. One thing Barry is not, is fair. He likes to push buttons but in reality he is of very little substance. Barry, just do something that will make a difference besides talking a well practiced line and coming up with ways to make a dollar or two. "Oh, look at me with my Sitting Frog t-shirt, I am somebody." That is not much of an impact in changing lives.
But I digress, this was suppose to be about Barry bad mouthing the police though he will be the first to tell you he does not have an unkind word for anyone. The police are good people. I have to smile when I think how much Sheriff Joe and Barry are a lot alike.

Bob Dylan "Thunder On The Mountain

2009-10-05T01:10:06Z

The Monks Live in Germany - Monk Chant

2009-10-03T22:58:13Z

The Monks - Boys Are Boys

The influential and ahead-of-their-time band The Monks play on German TV in 1965

Starting out as just another pick-up rock 'n' roll band to follow the Beatles' lead, the Monks would eventually become one of the '60s' most interesting musical footnotes. The Monks' story proves that Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground and the American garage psychedelia of such bands as the Count Five and the Seeds were hardly the isolated fads they may have seemed. American GIs stationed in Germany at the height of the Vietnam War, the Monks unleashed a brooding combination of guitar feedback and existential rants; such songs as ``Complication,'' ``Shut Up'' and ``I Hate You'' captured the darker tensions of their era. Ultimately, Black Monk Time is unlikely to secure the Monks the wider recognition they do in fact deserve.

http://www.the-monks.com/

My report card. It is official now! 3.78

2009-09-30T00:07:51Z

Completed Courses

Course	CR	Start	End	Instructor	Grade
GEN/105 SKILLS FOR LEARNING IN AN INFO AGE (AXIA)	3.00	09/24/2007	11/25/2007	KIMBERLY DOERFLEIN	B
COM/140 CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (AXIA)	3.00	09/24/2007	11/25/2007	KATA ALVIDREZ	A-
COM/150 EFFECTIVE ESSAY WRITING (AXIA)	3.00	11/26/2007	02/10/2008	RAS ACOLATSE	B
CRT/205 CRITICAL THINKING (AXIA)	3.00	11/26/2007	02/10/2008	ESSIEN UKOIDEMABIA	A
PSY/210 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO (AXIA)	3.00	02/11/2008	04/13/2008	ELLEN DAYAN	A-
COM/220 RESEARCH WRITING (AXIA)	3.00	02/11/2008	04/13/2008	MICHAEL MC INTYRE	A
ETH/125 CULTURAL DIVERSITY (AXIA)	3.00	04/28/2008	06/29/2008	CHARLES DRURY	A
SCI/275 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (AXIA)	3.00	04/28/2008	06/29/2008	TODD TRAMMELL	A
MAT/115 BASIC MATHEMATICS (AXIA)	3.00	07/21/2008	09/21/2008	JANELLE HOENLE	A-
HUM/130 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD (AXIA)	3.00	07/21/2008	09/21/2008	TODD JOHNSON	A
SCI/241 NUTRITION (AXIA)	3.00	09/22/2008	11/23/2008	HELEN COLE	A-
MAT/116 ALGEBRA 1A (AXIA)	3.00	09/22/2008	11/23/2008	SHARON GILES	A-
BEH/225 INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE (AXIA)	3.00	12/08/2008	02/22/2009	SANDRA GONZALEZ	B+
PSY/265 PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY (AXIA)	3.00	12/08/2008	02/22/2009	KELLI MC LAUGHLIN	A
HUM/205 WORLD CULTURE AND THE ARTS (AXIA)	3.00	02/23/2009	04/26/2009	ELEISA JORDAN	A
PSY/220 POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: WHAT'S RIGHT WITH ME (AXIA)	3.00	02/23/2009	04/26/2009	TAURES JACKSON	A
PSY/230 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY: I THINK, THEREFORE WHO AM I? (AXIA)	3.00	05/11/2009	07/12/2009	RAYMOND KENYON	A
SOC/120 SOCIOLOGY (AXIA)	3.00	05/18/2009	07/19/2009	ONESPHOR KYARA	A
PSY/240 THE BRAIN, THE BODY, AND THE MIND: ALL TOGETHER NOW (AXIA)	3.00	07/20/2009	09/20/2009	PAMELA STOELZEL	A
PSY/270 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY: ABUSE, ADDICTION, & DISORDERS (AXIA)	3.00	07/27/2009	09/27/2009	SANJAY PAUL	A

Who remembers when

2009-09-24T02:08:52Z

this street corner had a special meaning in San Francisco. The times have changed!

been out for a while

2009-09-24T02:00:31Z

When I began working on my degree in psychology I was not really motivated to use my degree professionally. My intentions were to understand me and the world around me a little bit better. My PSY 270 class brings to an end the goal I set out for about two years ago. I am learning to use psychology in understanding people better in my career and my personal life in spite of what my intentions were, first impressions have become less important. On any given day a normal person can exhibit abnormal behavior, or completely opposite of that, someone with abnormal behaviors has a day where everything is ok.
I have new concerns, mostly about just how fragile yet at the same time remarkable the mind can be. I may have even gained some gratitude in everything I have learned. Everyday can be a psychology day just by watching those around you, as long as I do not start diagnosing them.
I do believe I am a better employee from what I have learned in my psychology classes, maybe more understanding too. Understanding of myself and others. I am not getting the anxiety medication filled as often.
I am going to continue on with my bachelors degree. I am anticipating it to get a lot harder and even more interesting. I am old enough to know a career in psychology may not last long but that does not make me desire it any less. Maybe I have selfish reasons to continue on, maybe just to prove I can do it. I have concluded up to this point it has all been worth it.

You Buddha, You Buddha, You Buddha!

2009-08-22T15:57:53Z

Last night I chanced upon an excellent article by Ven. Kobutsu Malone,Osho, on The Buddhist Channel website www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php

As I enjoyed an unusually rainy Arizona night reading Kobutsu's essay on engaged buddhism, I was reminded of the an encounter we had on the last day of our visit to San Francisco.

Buz, his cousin and I spent a Monday morning wandering around Chinatown. We were looking for the Norras Buddhist Temple, the oldest buddhist temple in San Francisco dating back more than 50 years. After entering a small inconspicuous entryway, we climbed four flights of stairs to find a room filled with buddhist treasure.

Aside from the beautiful shrine and altars, every inch of space in the temple seemed to be adorned with an ecclectic assortment of buddhist images and offerings. After a short presentation, we were encouraged to take photos. Our guide invited us to stay as long as we wanted and help ourselves to free literature and books.

Throughout our visit there was a man near the doorway sitting cross legged in a folding chair. With careful attention to detail, he was cleaning a statue of the Buddha. As we were leaving, we stopped to ask him a question about the food offerings placed about the altars. To our pleasant surprise he started into a spontaneous teaching regarding buddha nature. In the middle of our discussion the man enthusiastically jumped up from his chair and pointed to each one of us exclaiming, "You Buddha, you Buddha, you Buddha. Everyone, everything Buddha."

It doesn't get much simpler than that.

As described by Shodo Harada Roshi in The Path to Bodhidharma, "To see every single day, every meeting of every person and thing, and everything we do as fresh -- this is the religious and spiritual way of life . . . If we are not careful we begin to think of our zazen and our life in society as two separate things."

Ride Along!

2009-08-16T04:22:06Z

For the past few years I have been trying to do things that I thought might be exciting. Some may call it my Bucket List because of the movie. I have done the Richard Petty Driving School twice, jumped out of an airplane, went back to college and completed the goal I set for myself to get my assoicate degree and went to San Francisco, ending up having one of the best vacations ever. I just completed another adventure I wanted to do, that is to do a ride along with the Phoenix Police. I did that Friday and enjoyed it very much. I learned a lot from the officer I was with and made a new friend also. I rode with him for about six hours. The most exciting time was chasing down a white cargo van that matched one the was discribed as being one where shots were fired. We raced through the city streets with probably six other cop cars and caught him. He ended up not being the suspect but the police did find an unsecured gun.
Of course he told me he could never get me out of a traffic ticket.