DUMB LUCK, HAPPY CHANCE and GIVING THANKS

I'd been following fires, wars and elections.
She sings the way I was feeling.

https://youtu.be/2rd8VktT8xY

Surprise from Jude Hill
The mail arrived reminding me of generous friendship
and I decided everything would be Okay.

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Serendipity
Ran into Joanne, my long time Yogi friend.
Hadn't seen each other for a year!

Happy chance

We walked to her place nearby so I could meet
"Milton", a real sweetie.

"Soon" we say.

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Monday dawned at Noon.
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Preparation for a Feast
Tri-colored Quinoi, Sweet Onion, Sweet eating pumpkins, Cashews, Fennel and Nutmeg...

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add Blue Agave

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Add Sweet Butter, and

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there's green string beans too.
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Accidental Event
One of the four 90 minute tapes broke.
Wish I hadn't given away my splicer.

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UNITED
by
Naomi Shihab Nye

When sleepless, it’s helpful to meditate on mottoes of the states.
South Carolina, “While I breathe I hope.” Perhaps this could be
the new flag on the empty flagpole.
Or “I Direct” from Maine—why?
Because Maine gets the first sunrise? How bossy, Maine!
Kansas, “To the Stars through Difficulties”—
clackety wagon wheels, long, long land
and the droning press of heat—cool stars, relief.
In Arkansas, “The People Rule”—lucky you.
Idaho, “Let It Be Perpetual”—now this is strange.
Idaho, what is your “it”?
Who chose these lines?
How many contenders?
What would my motto be tonight, in tangled sheets?
Texas—“Friendship”—now boasts the Open Carry law.
Wisconsin, where my mother’s parents are buried,
chose “Forward.”
New Mexico, “It Grows As It Goes”—now this is scary.
Two dangling its. This does not represent that glorious place.
West Virginia, “Mountaineers Are Always Free”—really?
Washington, you’re wise.
What could be better than “By and By”?
Oklahoma must be tired—“Labor Conquers all Things.”
Oklahoma, get together with Nevada, who chose only
“Industry” as motto. I think of Nevada as a playground
or mostly empty. How wrong we are about one another.
For Alaska to pick “North to the Future”
seems odd. Where else are they going?
 
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Stumbled Upon This
I subscribed to the site. Many Episodes.
I watched them all.

https://youtu.be/hEDWHQr2W jw
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Next
Rain for California Fires
An end to all Wars
Planet Healing
Universal Kindness 
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