About the debt ceiling negotiations...

I'm hoping that Americans are well enough informed to understand that this matter of national business is not the right means for expressing anti-government opinions.

When will the markets start into a run to cover their asse(t)s?

History and current international examples show that what we are doing is exactly backwards. If you want fiscal responsibility, act that way. And please stop calling rich people "job creators." That's not what they do with their money.

For the Children by Gary Snyder

The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us.
the steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.

In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.

To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:

stay together
learn the flowers
go light

~ Gary Snyder ~


(Turtle Island)

Awarded Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, 2008,
for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry