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Check out the article in the Rolling Stone - including two sound files
We Are the People: https://soundcloud.com/anthology_recs/lou-reed-we-are-the-people


Article here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-poetry-collection-set-for-release-w517340

buried under snow
cold weather?
may we all be safe, healthy
with a little tea for comfort
out here, it's still bike-riding time
skies are big and blue
chilled cheeks and gloveless fingers
cheers and best wishes to all

last day of year
all day, every minute
each breath a new chance

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Opening facebook, I read of his passing.
Suddenly by his own hand. I don't know why or the situation, but in recent days he was posting photos.  A few days ago, he wished his friends to live in peace.


r.i.p., kemp aka john donoghue

same old night
same morning
everything's different


a chance for peace
a drop of compassion
self-respect


open mind
open to suggestion
ready to hear

just returned from a retreat - silence, no writing, no reading
sitting meditation, walking meditation, metta meditation


i wondered who of you have experienced vipassana retreats.


please share, if you would


best - judih

[Medical marijuana to be distributed at Israeli pharmacies]

I saw this announcement in the paper (july 27th,2015) and thought it might bring a wee smile to a face or two - best to all - judih
From ynet news: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4684584,00.html
Medical marijuana to be distributed at Israeli pharmacies
Moran Azulay, Rotem Eliezra

Published: 07.27.15, 17:38 / Israel Culture

Israel took a major leap on Monday when Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman announced that more doctors will be able to prescribe medical marijuana to their patients, and that it will be made available at pharmacies, pending a Supreme Court decision on the issue.

Speaking at the Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse, Litzman said: "Even today there are pharmacies that give all kinds of other medications like drugs and morphine - we'll establish order in this as well. At the moment we're dealing with the Supreme Court because of the issue of growers."

Litzman added that moving distribution of the drug to pharmacies will serve to strengthen growers who are due to submit tender requests in the near future.

The committee's chairwoman, Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg, welcomed the announcement. "This is great news for the first time in a few years years, since the field of cannabis hit a dead end. The transition of medicinal cannabis treatment to specialists and distribution at pharmacies is a huge step forward."

Other officials, doctors and patients, expressed excitement at the impending reforms in the hopes that treatment will become accepted, more effective, and the surrounding bureaucracy more efficient.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html


Click onto the link to experience inter spatial distances

please, say you weren't there
you had other mountains to climb
other villages to tour


say you chose to stay put
not to backpack that day
not to follow your dream


write a stupid update
a duck-faced selfie
say you're with friends


please, not Nepal
say Shanghai or Kyoto
say you're alive

I know there's a way to embed a youtube clip.
but, instead of trying to muddle up the code, i'll just paste in the url. The Moloch section of "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg. Animator's freedom, words from a master poet. good combination


https://youtu.be/Nonab6djMAA

danger lurks
look both ways
before you write poems

a link for the trailer


and from there to a free online screening.
or click directly:http://www.thesacredscience.com/screening1/
Today the 17th of October is the last day.
Take a look

last wisps of dream
gone without warning
alas no haiku

bird swoops
through the patio
remnants of breakfast

today's wanderer
banana tree and iPhone
everywhere is home

new voices
around a full table
wine, scotch and laughter

reality graph
components shift
but always remain

Hello dear spf-ers


I teach in a jr/sr high school in the Western Negev. We've just been through our 3rd military operation in the past 6 years. Most of my students have lived most of their lives under rocket attack even when there's no official military operation.


So, for two years, I've been going into classrooms to facilitate morning meditations - to offer some techniques to deal with stress, anxiety or overly impulsive behaviour.


I'm working on an app that I call Class Relax. It's something meant to offer techniques to teachers wherever they are and it should be available within a year, but meanwhile, I'm working face-to-face in real time.
I'm looking for music especially cool for meditation - something that appeals to kids from 12 yrs - 18 yrs old.


If you have any ideas, or thoughts, please feel free to comment


judih