Instant Thoughts (add yours too if you like)

Aafke

Without taxes its quit difficult for governments to have a social program...

TalonTedd

I agree. Taxes should support the welfare of society and the world at large. The present government in Canada has attacked our social structure at every turn, while enriching the wealthy and rearming the forces. It weakens democratic institutions and harasses those that seek to expose the tyranny of capitalist venture. Environmental concerns and protections are a nuisance and dismantled. I resent this government for its treacheries, and find myself a dissident citizen. I appreciate your comment and hope to some day be a proud contributor to Canada again....The title seems a little harsh in hindsight, but frustration can amplify dissent. I'm sure you can understand.

In joyous part ~X(

Aafke

Yep, I do understand your frustrations... Without the socialistic block in the east, the world has been concurred by just one point off view, on how to deal with the wealth off the world, capitalism, I don't like this system, either. It doesn't believe in equally sharing of the worlds wealth, and makes it easier for the happy few to enrich themselves more. The survival of the fittest...etc. Countries who had more of a socialistic point of view on wealth, letting it more and more go, in benefit of those happy few, sadly enough. I don't think it's strange that there is more and more resistance against the capitalism, because it encourages a lack of balance in this world to grow even larger. In my opinion the strength of a society can be measured by the way the way it treat there weakest members, but by time I feel more and more standing alone in my believes, sadly enough ...

donnaruhl

For quite some time now,I've wanted to make some big changes in my life.
It always came back to excuses as to why I couldn't at this time. Money being the big problem,
and my cat was another.He has always been an outside kind of cat.He could never be cooped up in an Apt.
He loved to hunt mice and shit.I thought I would wait until he died to make the change,He was 18.Last week
a Coyote got my cat.It was devastating to say the least.Not at all the way I would of wanted him to go.I wonder if I willed this to happen.Now,besides saving up the money,I have no excuses left.I can't see God as being cruel.
Did he do this for me? Take the one thing that was holding me back? I loved my cat very much,so it's been hard
to deal with.I wanted to kill the Coyote,but that won't bring him back and it is the nature of the beast.

chadwick

for would you eat banana
oranges are like sun-clouds, a 4th of july helmet
you are the fighter high up every mountain shield
a grape-vine with nowhere to go
suddenly a path
a snowfall comes is coming storms
let it go with yourself to be

give yourself this day
tomorrow all of them will unfold in time
here you walk up to deer
lick them across the head
the forest happy
your face saw as wild
this all so simple
golden feathers rubbed across your naked body
you the sky
slow & rhythmically teasing drops

yeah rain rolled in it

rollings

a sad face looks
with one of those eyes probably crossed
out at the strange way the
mountain looks so orange
why is it so orange?
why is this strange
it's not the screen
it must be me or
is it the screen

skinny guy tall, black hair & all

how many experiences exactly is it that I trade for comfort.

chadwick

take your hands
fold them quietly as moon does
like the seas
be kind in this way
your path opening

radiance

take away your sight
feel your day's way
a seed of gallery
my only one

as guitars play up here
wind is a child climbing on thru

your hair a land holding fast to where i stand
this ability gold in flow
a sun calendar hangs from here
flying with thunder's magnificence
across tides leading to shore

please advance home

donnaruhl

Can't touch the bottom!

justam

School is out. Grades are turned in.
Summer starts tomorrow.

I feel like singing!

TalonTedd

Are you ready for the summer, ready for the summer
Are you ready for some good times, good times
Are you ready for the summer sun
some summer fun
well the summer is ready for you

No more pencils
No more books
No more teachers dirty looks
No more math or history
Its summer time, we've been set free

Theme song for the movie "Meatballs" :-c

justam

TalonTedd, I appreciate your contribution of lyrics but I have to tell you that I'm a teacher and we need the summer break as much as the students!!!

TalonTedd

Yeah, I figured that. I couldn't help but think of that song after reading your post. I think teaching is a very noble and under appreciated profession. I myself am exploring the idea of instructing apprentice carpenters at my Union hall. I would have to take an adult educators course for two years in the evenings, however. I can really see myself instructing and being good at it.

I hope you have a great summer. I'll be looking for some new photos in your Art thread.

The summer is ready for you


:-bd

May 22, 2014
Just(am) addendum,

After placing second in the saw off contest (drat) on May 10, the head instructor asked me to come and work in the apprenticeship office assisting instructors on the floor, in the classes and out in the field. It may only be temporary but I get the feeling this is an evaluation for becoming a full time instructor. I am completely stoked about the opportunity.

In joyous part >-

chadwick

you could teach me how to build a fort

TalonTedd

It all starts with the will....and maybe a burning bush or a vocal cloud.

donnaruhl

Having myself a chillaxing day so far.

rollings

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rollings

yeah

rollings

this delete feature is so cool.

oh

donnaruhl

To bad Life doesn't have trade in's available. I'd take a rebuilt at this point.

rollings

you are a robin's garden
a precise spider web of petunias, predetermined tied up entangled in my ways
wonderfulness is a verb if you
lost in a cloud of slushy sunshine view
tomorrow as an orange plea
today is wide as black and blue
what am I going to do?
not even knowing but where to run to
just be, you