Back When I Was Better

Best wishes to you (4.00 / 7)

I hope you find one of elusive paths
to inner contentment.

Someone once told me,
the Only Person we can really change in this life,
is ourself.

Been working on that one, ever since.

Peace and godspeed to you, LHM.

Trust in the Universe,
when all else fails.

ola


Where's the Note?    -- SEIU

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by: jamess @ Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 03:29:17 AM UTC

Are you okay, Hoss? (4.00 / 6)

You don't sound okay.

I found this some where on the innerwebs, not sure where, but it sums it all up for me:

The Earth is ancient far beyond the understanding of most people. There have been giant continents,  populated repeatedly with immense herds of large animals, innumerable deadly carnivores, forests stretching thousands upon thousands of miles, and deserts that today would encompass whole, and large, continents.

The Earth has also had many climates. It has been a hot, blasted wasteland, and it has been a frozen ball where once nearly the entire planet was covered in thousands of feet of blue ice.

It has been a garden with forests and seas stretching around the globe, a place where unknown millions of forms of life have arisen, lived for eon after eon after eon, and then perished. Many left no trace. Over that gulf of time, the Earth has been many things, and it has been each of those many things for millions and millions of years at a time.

We humans will become extinct. It is an absolute certainty, and there is not even the least shred of doubt about it. In the long run, we're all extinct.

The only question is whether it will happen sooner because we let the corporations push us into extinction through greed, or later because we regain control of our lives.

Peace, Brother...

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by: gotterdammerung @ Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 04:37:16 AM UTC

I have paid a visit to the black hole; but it's pretty cool when you come out. (4.00 / 6)

I know about cockroaches too, but I don't much socialize with them. I have a good friend: Many years ago he lost his job, his wife and his son within a very short period of time. Took a while, but he can laugh again. Best Luck LHM. Hope to hear from you in the not too distant future.

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by: bigsurtree @ Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 04:53:37 AM UTC

you're allright, the world's screwed up (4.00 / 6)

.... and if you got dissed by Princess Nyookie, you are definitely alright in my book.

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by: AmericanRiverCanyon @ Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 07:51:19 AM UTC

O gha! (4.00 / 3)

please don't go forever....
do come back now & again.
let us know you're alive, okay?

come firefly-dreaming with me..&..do no harm

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by: RiaD @ Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 14:09:24 PM UTC

hey lasthorseman (4.00 / 5)

I have thought of you so often after our many exchanges at My Left Wing.

As you speak truth to deaf ears you were so true to your message.  As things you speak come to pass I am with you on the journey, a fellow traveler with horror filled eyes and a broken heart.

I am sorry and weep with you.  You did a good job of this....

I look at "my fellow citizens" and try and channel, spiritually, psychically the orientation in their hearts.

and I thank you for all your efforts, forever kind and respectful, I hope you stay with us, as you are not alone and I hear you.

I hear you......

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by: kathleen @ Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 14:31:39 PM UTC

What I am, and have gone through (4.00 / 4)

and what I am now going through is great but tragic all at once.  I have to write the book.  The story of my impressions from the 50's till today.

If I should not be able to continue I am content in knowing others will carry on.  This does bring me peace.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do to you.

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by: Lasthorseman @ Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 23:20:47 PM UTC

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You are in my thoughts (4.00 / 3)

I know you have had struggles with your mom.  
My mom (who lived with us) died on the 12th of this month, and a few hours later we got a message from her that she was free at last.
Here is an essay I wrote on it....
http://firefly-dreaming.com/di...
I will miss you in the tubes if you go. :o)

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by: kathleen @ Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 07:15:29 AM UTC

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I am the survivor of 2 cancers and 5 years penitentiary... (4.00 / 1)

...I can tell you about "black holes".

I survived the incarceration--because of the mercy and love of family, dedicated friends, fellow inmates who had access to pot, and the cannabis activist community--but I did not know I would live through it when I'd been 50 days without food and had lost 40% of my body mass.

Similarly:  Later, after I'd been released, there were 6 horrible weeks before surgery when I did not know if my kidney cancer had spread (it had not).

I really hope you are okay, LHM, and will be back with us in the near future.  There is often surprising light at the end of even the darkest tunnels, and I hope you will be bathed in it soon.

Peace ~a

"Listen, Son", said the man with the gun, "There's room for you inside."

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by: alamacTHC @ Wed Jul 28, 2010 at 15:50:22 PM UTC

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Lasthorseman (4.00 / 2)

I know you will be back. I love your inconsistency, your strange truthfulness. I do not dismiss you as a CT nut but love your really sane over view as all things seem to be possible in days like this. I know personal lives are a pain in the butt these days but trust that you will as always get a grip of the interconnectedness that pervades all our lives and be back soon. I too have ceased to find much connection with the politics at hand and reality and reality as hard as it is to take and live with in this cruel and nasty regime or empire is sometimes better then dealing in negatives with no end in sight and no way to stop the truly surreal dialog that doesn't eve n deal with anyones real life. Hows that that for a run on sentence, heh? See you around the inkwell and happy trails on your next ride as the last horseman.    

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by: Shaharazade @ Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 00:58:19 AM UTC

In past times (4.00 / 2)

all of these tragic times have been followed up by great and advanced spiritual revelations.  You know, but I worry about, Jesus H Christ, if I have another great spiritual revelation I am going to be even more incoherent than I am now.  It does get bad.  I saw the horses after all this trama and they seem to be asking me "What is wrong with you, is everything allright.  Once again the prey animal is teaching me about us, the predator species.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do to you.

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by: Lasthorseman @ Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 02:50:57 AM UTC

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