Rhyme Time (65/365)

Silver spoon
Spoon-fed
Missing you
Grateful dead
Live a little
Buy a lot
Build a house
High five
Good intentions
Big rush
Maze of smoke
Feel the buzz
Crush a chip
Handstand
Mistletoe
Grandstand
Filthy rat
Escape to peace
Live there
Get a lease
Make it work
Find a way
Big love
Paper plate

Outside Lands (64/365)

We all need those good vibes
Thick beats, waving melodies
Fresh moist air
Crispy juicy melt in your mouth
Warm chocolate syrup in a sippy cup
Room to dance
Room to make
Sweet hot love

Someone you love to hate
Someone who takes your shit
Someone who calls you out
Someone who loves and loves

The music weaves us together
In one colorful tapestry
If only for a song
We forget what we hate
And remember what we love
We let our hearts out to fly
And lock them away with the last note

Our brains all work the same
Our hearts all feel the tug of real love truth
When will we rise above our past?
Rise above our chemistry?
Can we all hike the mountain to that beautiful plateau
Right now
Carry the feeble on our shoulders,
And rest where the sun sets on our insecurities
And the moon rises to greet each and all
Effortlessly reflecting the sun's perfect majesty
Despite being small
Despite being lonely
Its craters and imperfections we call beautiful
Because it shines on with such ease
Shine on us and let us shine
Let's go there always and forever

Regret and the Future (63/365)

Smudge away the past
Start fresh, born again
Into the body you had yesterday
As the sage fills your nostrils
Your wrongs leave the body
Tomorrow you get another chance

Your friends won't tickle your ears
So imagine the lion within
The dignified ruler of his pride
Provider protector discipliner
Love guides and love loves

Today (62/365)

Tenacious in litigation
Frugal and wealthy
Proximity to power
Ideas need influence

Rushed and guilty
Running's not how
I measure myself

Feeling the love
Gone is the fear
Gonna dream big
Gonna get strong

The sky is my art
Words are my drugs
I breathe in some peace
I breathe out a song

Relax for a second
Another close call
Change the rules
Walk away
Prepare for the worst

Compassion (61/365)

Compassion
Is the burning through
Of bright sunshine
Piercing cloudy grey skies

The surprising warmth
You did not expect
And did not deserve
The smile in a sea of scowls

Simple or Not? (60/365)

Why strive for more than average?
What's wrong with the simple life?
Ignorance is bliss
Meager or eager?
What makes us reach for the stars?

Is it life's greed for life
That we think we must strive?
Believe we can change, grow, rise above
With the strength of our will
Live one more day
In hope of a miracle

Why do the hearts of men
Relish beauty, fantasy,
And stories of the gods?
Do we miss being among them?
Or are they bedtime stories that keep us alive?

Easy Bliss (59/365)

This peace I held today
So close to bliss
So far from fear
My bills paid
My stomach quiet
I could live and let live
When people felt
As random to me as the weather
Now on to unconquered territory:
Those I love.

Live Your Life (58/365)

Forget the media
And the lies they promote
Forget the weeds they plant in our heads
Forget the ads for so much trash
The rich are selling us a world we don't want
Don't buy it
Or meditate for a moment
On their storylines, hook, line, and sinker
We're all suckers
For eating the garbage at the bottom of the lake
And we end up fat and ugly
When we should be alive and victorious

The Ultimate Dance (57/365)

Everything is coming together
Even the scientists are finding
The interconnectedness
Of ailments, of energy
That's why I love astrology
It's all related so beautifully
You couldn't make it up
The way a beating of wings
In China affects us here
Babel, it's all babble
Until you zoom out

More than Human (56/365)

Plastic people
Glossy retouch
Andro sprinter
Bulging biceps
Crest whitestrip
Invisalign
Break your bones
And grow them longer
Ultra tan
Ultra thin
Maybe money
Maybe fame
Mostly just
A cryin' shame

Pastel Vision (55/365)

Balloons and cookies
Frosting in pastel
A big white cake
Cute little hat
Blue flower placemat
Pinwheel spinning
Blow leisurely
Head rests on folded arms

Insurance, Crime Prevention and Healthy Living

Car insurance is needed because cars often cause expensive property damage, and sometimes expensive bodily damage. If you don't want to pay for car insurance, you can take a risk that you won't get in an accident, or you can sell your car. You can pay a fine if you get caught without car insurance.

Health insurance protects us from getting sick. This is more complicated. A person may be born sick, or have greater risk of getting sick due to genetics, age, exposure to pathogens or carcinogens, income level influencing food choice and sanitation, or simply from making poor choices or forming terrible habits or addictions.

There is life insurance, home owner's insurance, gap insurance, even wage insurance and debt insurance.

How about crime insurance? Some people are more prone to commit crimes than others. From parking tickets to homocide, wouldn't this be an interesting idea? Perhaps we would care more about prevention and healthy living if we all paid into a crime insurance pool.

Like George Carlin said, "These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools."

Here and Now (54/365)

Connect and share
We find our freedom
When we forget ourselves
In the music of the day
And just jam with life

The love is in the trust
The American dream
Was Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Not lending a dime
And hoping for a dollar

Money won't buy life
Liberty, or happiness
You can't buy what
You already own
Shed that old fur coat

The treasure awaits, buried
Under the weight of your
Parent's misguided dreams
Society's heavy lusts
Fame's cheap burden
Man's ticking time bomb

If you throw off these weights
Even for a moment
You just might experience
The thrill of existence
The intoxicating joy of
Having all you need

Right now

Just a whiff
And you are hooked
Nothing looks the same
In the afterglow
The trip is easier
When the pack is light

Health Care Reform

My roommate was recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. She is still trying to recover from a car accident from 2006 which wasn't properly treated. She didn't start getting headaches until July of that year (her accident was in April).

Her current doctors have her on 3 medications currently, each of which costs $5/month out of her pocket. She could get some physical therapy at a local pool, but it costs $9/VISIT.

This is a clear case of short-term thinking. Drugs to her are cheaper than healthy lifestyle changes. This will hurt ALL of us in the end.

Love Alive (53/365)

Love sleeps
Love dances
Love reads
Love sings
Love walks
Love sits
Love looks
Love eats
Love gives
Love takes
Love talks
Love smiles
Love lives

Magical (52/365)

Children are magical
Babies of all kinds
Kittens
Puppies
Piglets

They are so close
To the beginning

Like a single-celled organism
In the span of evolution
They were the first

What do they know?
What do they remember?

Good thing they are mute
The first year or two
Or we might not believe
Their stories from before

What is Love? (51/365)

What is love?
The recognition
Of yourself in others
People, animals, things

We are the light
Shining through
6 billion vases
Different colors
Shapes
Some dark and dim
Others bright

We live to let
That little light of ours shine
Knowing we each
Got a different vessel
And loving through
The filth

Love is the hardest thing
In this world of puppets
And illusions
We can be tricked into
Thinking our skin will
Really matter

Not in a million years

Bumperstickers

Courtesy? This is California
Bjork
I *heart* zombies

Thoughts (50/365)

Blessed
Dementia
Trip hop
Don't stop

Needles
Guns
Smoke in your
Lungs

Bias
Bayous
Unplanned
Abortion

Fearing
The fearful
Faith in the
System

God will provide
Learn to survive

Pouring Forth (49/365)

I'm so full
My heart is fat
My stomach is big
I laugh like Buddha
My little gray ants
Scurry away to build their own world
Some people want to shine a light
I want to grow an army
Off the wisdom of the ancients
What could we do?
Solve this world's problems
Or voyage upward and onward
Jump this fishbowl
And breathe some new air
But they won't care
What we did
Unless we guarded freedom
And opened the floodgates of love.

Fishing with the Boys

Fishing with the Boys, originally uploaded by Chrissy Mc.

Tell me what doesn't look right about the picture above. My dad, a fanatic fisherman, looked at this picture later, disgusted, and said "You're holding that FISH like a BABY!"

It all made sense while reading "The Female Brain," by Dr. Louann Brizendine, M.D.:

"One of my patients gave her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter many unisex toys, including a bright red fire truck instead of a doll. She walked into her daughter's room one afternoon to find her cuddling the truck in a baby blanket, rocking it back and forth saying, "Don't worry, little truckie, everything will be all right."

Take it Easy (48/365)

Aliens among us
Children
Kittens
Puppies
Foreigners

They get the benefit
Of the doubt

So should everyone

We are all strangers

Let's just take it easy

The Link (47/365)

What has made us so
Fat

So
Sad

So
Anxious

So
ADD

So
Hungry for Money

So
Ignorant

What is the link?

Another Day (46/365)

Another day
Another dollar
Another pill
I have to swallow

Another chance
To shed my skin
But more like
Waiting to begin

I spin my wheels
Here in the mud
Flinging dirt
And pumping blood

I'm learning more
With each new day
How to live
And love more ways

I note the beauty
That I see
Colorful trash
A bright new weed

But late at night
I lie alone
And dream of orbs
So far from home

And where I'll live
After this life
Or how I'll feel
When I'm a wife

And whether kids
Will calm my angst
Make me feel
Less out of place

Or whether
I will always be
A stranger
To this planet E

Our Little Flame (45/365)

A lucky planet
Somewhere
Is a spinning Goldilocks
Not too hot
Not too cold
Juuuust Right

The planet is on fire
Like a flame
Devours oxygen
So does life
Devour energy
A green revolution

Are we a fungus
Which could infect every
Galaxy?
Or are we a flame
Burning bright
On this world's
Fuel?

A speck of blue
Orbiting a grain of sand
Says there's
A more important
Story to tell
Than what I was
Afraid of today

It's hard to keep your sanity
When you look so far away
Or so far within
You leave and come back
But living is like riding a bike
Most of us are on autopilot
Anyway

Reactable

Hormones (44/365)

Don't mess with me today
Don't push my buttons
Don't tickle me
Don't say anything
You think is funny
My shield is down
And without food
I have no strength
To defend myself
These hormones
Close the gap
Between my brain
And my tongue
My wounded heart
And my hand
So don't tease me
Don't taunt me
Don't make me
Think about anything
Unless you're ready for
The flood

Images (43/365)

Millenia passed
Birds sing
Flip a burger
Milkshake
Moose horns
Billboard sign
Make ends meet
Milk and honey
Murder mystery
Bananas for me

This Life (42/365)

These bodies
Mortal & fragile
Our soul
Immortal & immense
We yearn for the peaceful
Space between the stars
Where our better half dwells
Meanwhile
We clumsily
Move these bodies
Against gravity
And wonder
If anyone is watching
And laughing.

Moon Worship (41/365)

The soft side of the sun
A hypnotizing orb
Peering gently
Through clouds
Lined with gold
I moonbathe
In the cool light
A rooftop party
A shooting star
Nature's way
Of letting us know we are
Not forgotten
Even when most of the world
Sleeps

Perfection (40/365)

Perfect
Is an intention
Not a destination

Change
Is permanent

Results
Though desirable
Need not
Drive the journey

Throwing
For throwing's sake
Cleaning
For cleaning's sake
Ensures
You won't give up
When there is
Nothing to hope for

Living within his gates

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise

This is the day which the Lord has made

Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

~Psalms 100:4 and 118:24

Undeveloped Thoughts on Capitalism

Allowing businesses full reign in your country is like allowing sovereign countries to set up within your borders. In many cases, they will not have parallel motivations and ethics and will lobby for changes that will allow them to sell more products, consume more resources, and grow larger, at a minimum cost to them.

Governments which allow independent individuals to set up shops and compete with each other must bribe such companies to comply with the common interest of that country's citizens.

A corporation is a mini-government, having its own president, advisors, security enforcement, code of ethics, rule of law, etc. It just doesn't collect taxes. It used to be that a company's longevity and reputation mattered for its survival & short-term profits. But increasingly, investors are in the market for quick profits, so companies cater to investors on at least an equal footing as they do their customers.

Companies have even turned their employees into investors by axing pension plans and matching employee 401K contributions.

Sectors most influencing public health & safety should not be controlled by private investors. By safety I mean firemen, police, emergency services, children's services, transportaion, fuel, etc. By health I mean the food chain, environmental custody, air & water. I'm not sure housing shouldn't be in this category as well. Government should also have an interest in how its citizens are educated--not to influence propganda of course--but in making all its citizens aware of current advancements in knowledge as to prepare each generation for success.

I think a major problem right now is that we haven't decided how to relate to the world as a country. I think as citizens we want to be secure at home then help others abroad as much as we can. However, as corporations, money coming from any source benefits the company, especially in the short-term.

America is a place where you can make quick buck with a good idea. Surely our inventors should be rewarded for what they bring to society. But the extent to which they are granted access to lawmakers must be minimized, and competing interests with the good of society must be recognized.

Our society does not benefit from factories being built overseas which sell products back to us. Our society does benefit from purchasing items overseas for which resources are scarce here (cheap human labor not counting as a resource, as slavery was abolished here).

I hope someone smarter or more-informed than me is advising our president and congress on this issue of capitalism within a democracy.

Rare Quiet (39/365)

In that rare quiet space
When I lose myself
And become aware
Of the bold white
Aura my peaceful
Nature exudes
I remember
We are one
Expressed in many
And you exist because
My grandparents lived
And your reaction
Was their oppression
And my love
Is your future

Globalization (38/365)

If your brother could do the job
But it would cost you more
Than paying a stranger
Who gets the job?
How hard up does your brother
Need to be before
He is considered
Above a cheaper alternative?

Destiny (37/365)

My stars have destined me

To be a leader
And a warrior
A communicator
And quick thinker
An appreciator
Of love and beauty
And pursuer of perfection

This is all I have ever known.