PoetryGirl

That makes me laugh because there are all these no’s from Nov and then the question if the forum shut download n May.

By author Tom Robbins Commencement speech at the Off Campus School in Oak Harbor on June 7, 1974. The Off Campus School was an alternative for students who previously dropped out of regular high school. “I am often asked whether there is life after death. Certainly, there is. There is also death after life, and life before death, and death after life. It goes on forever. There’s no stopping it. You will live forever and die forever. In fact, you already have.” “As for heaven and hell, they are right here on Earth, and it is up to each of you in which one you choose to reside. To put it simply, heaven is living in your hopes and hell is living in your fears. “One problem with the notion of Heaven and Hell,” Robbins continued, “is that although they are exact opposites, an astonishing number of people seem to be confused about which is which. For example, all over the United States on this very evening, commencement speakers are standing before audiences not greatly unlike yourselves describing hell as if they were talking about heaven. “Their speakers are saying things such as, ‘Graduating seniors, you have reached the golden age of maturity; it is time now to go out into the world and take up the challenge of life, time to face your hallowed responsibility.’ “And if that isn’t one hell of a note, it’s certainly one note of hell. “When I hear the word maturity spoken with such solemn awe, I don’t know whether to laugh or get sick. There circulates a common myth that once one becomes an adult, one suddenly and magically gets it all together. And, if I may use the vernacular, discovers where it’s at. Ha ha. The sad funny truth is adults are nothing but tall children who have forgotten how to play. “When people tell you to grow up, they mean approximately the same thing they mean when they tell you to shut up. By shut up they mean stop talking. By grow up, they mean stop growing. “Because as long as you keep growing, you keep changing, and the person who is changing is unpredictable, impossible to pigeonhole and difficult to control. The growing person is not an easy target for those guys in slick suits who want you to turn over your soul to Christ, your heart to America, your butt to Seattle First National Bank and your armpits to the new extra crispy Right Guard. “No, the growing person is not an ideal consumer, which means, in more realistic terms, he or she is not an easy slave. Worse yet, if he or she continues to grow, grows far enough and long enough, he or she may get too close to the universal mysteries, the nature of which the Navy and the Dutch Reformed Church do not encourage us to ponder. The growing person is an uncomfortable reminder of the greater human potential that each of us might realize if we had the guts. “So, society wants you to grow up to reach a safe, predictable plateau and root there. To muzzle your throb. To lower the volume on the singing in your blood. Capers all cut, sky finally larked, surprises known: SETTLE DOWN — settle like the sand in the bottom of an hourglass, like a coffin six months in the ground. Act your age, which means act their age, and that has, from the moment they stopped growing, always been old.” Growing up is a trap. “As for responsibility, I am forced to ask, responsibility to what? To our fellow man? Two weeks ago, the newspapers reported that a federal court had ruled that when a person’s brain stops functioning, that person is legally dead, even though his or her heart may continue to beat. That means that 80% of the population of the Earth is legally dead. Must we be responsible to corpses? “No, you have no responsibility except to be yourself to the fullest limit of yourself. And to find out who you are. Or perhaps I should say to remember who you are. Because deep down in the secret velvet of your heart, far beyond your name and address, each of you knows who you really are. And that being who is true cannot help but behave graciously to all other beings – because it is all other beings. “Ah, but we must be responsible, and if we are, then we are rewarded with the white man’s legal equivalent of looting: a steady job, a secure income, easy credit, free access to all the local emporiums and a home of your own to pile the merchandise in. And so what if there is no magic in your life, no wonder, no amazement, no playfulness, no peace of mind, no sense of unity with the universe, no giggling joy, no burning passion, no deep understanding, no overwhelming love? At least your ego has the satisfaction of knowing you are a responsible citizen. “The only advice I have for you tonight is not to actively resist or fight the system, because active protest and resistance merely entangles you in the system. Instead, ignore it, walk away from it. Turn your backs on it, laugh at it. Don’t be outraged, be outrageous! Never be stupid enough to respect authority unless that authority proves itself respectable. “So be your own authority, lead yourselves. Learn the ways and means of the ancient yogi masters, pied pipers, cloud walkers and medicine men. Get in harmony with nature. Listen to the loony rhythms of your blood. Look for beauty and poetry in everything in life. Let there be no moon that does not know you, no spring that does not lick you with its tongues. Refuse to play it safe, for it is from the wavering edge of risk that the sweetest honey of freedom drips and drips. Live dangerously, live lovingly. Believe in magic. Nourish your imagination. Use your head, even if it means going out of your mind. Learn, like the lemon and the tomato learned, the laws of the sun. Become aware, like the jungle became aware, of your own perfume. Remember that life is much too serious to take seriously – so never forget how to play. Looking at you tonight, I know you are going to do just fine.”

This was where Tea got on the bus! I had a feeling it was so.

4/11/88 Detroit E: White Rabbit Hell in a Bucket Sugaree New Minglewood Blues It Must Have Been the Roses Stuck Inside of Mobile To Lay Me Down Music Never Stopped Touch of Grey Man Smart/Woman Smarter Ship of Fools Truckin' drums The Wheel Gimme Some Lovin' All Along the Watchtower Stella Blue Turn on Your Love Light Happy Birthday Brokedown Palace

🥰, Doc!! Not my pass but I did bail for Jubilee instead and needing to be close this weekend. My son is out of knee surgery and will snowboard again! I will be hauling VW a$$ to OH on Friday after daughter graduates and we celebrate. try cash or trade Gr8tfulpair.

STOKED!!! I'm 100% committed. Gonna be good....don't ya know....

42!!! some he played like a harp

Pat Metheny Side Eye Project! Thomas Wolfe Auditorium with James Francies on keys of Houston and Joe Dyson on Drums and of course the orchestrion. Wow truly inspired playing by his bandmates. Monstrous! What I've got is...... Have you heard? Antonio Message to a Friend It Starts When We Disappear Timeline When We were Free A dissonant crazy Ornette Coleman song Acoustic melody with This is Not America and Last Train Home included. I think the final exam for a new crew member is can you tune the Picasso guitar? 😉 I did get run over by a spotlight during "It Starts When We Disappear". jeez. It was strong and came right at me. 🤪

Last I remember Bobby Weir playing with them was 2/11/14 at Great American Music hall. what a thrill! I’m glad to see Viola in the mix . I miss her. I had talked of coming to visit and my friend Rose but I’ve been setting up a new office. Playing my cards as they are dealt.

67 style first set 2/12/69 second

Ashland 2019 1967 style show. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl opener!!💥 wooden floors. great space. good vibes. loved the crowd.

Haha! I just got a notice from this thread when I checked in and just this afternoon I was thinking about what I think is a fantastic opener. GDTRFB. It pretty much gets everything right on track as it should be.

like - Do you know NASCAR’s origins? Running moonshine.

I think looking for sassafras to make tea should be in there. Glad Jerry was a little bit country, and a little bit rock n roll. Maybe add you know all the words to David Allen Coe’s Darlin song. Or you sing Hank Williams Jr song “ Country Boy will survive” more times than you can count

HOW REDNECK ARE YOU???? My score is 29 🤣 Let's see just how redneck you really are. 10 - 20: A little redneck 20 - 30: Pretty much redneck 30 - 40: Bona-fide redneck or Appalachian!! Have you ever... 1. Owned pellet or BB gun as a kid? ✅ 2. Owned a real gun? ✅ 3. Shot a real gun? ✅ 4. Gone squirrel or rabbit hunting? No 5. Gone fishing? ✅ 6. Owned or used a slingshot? ✅ 7. Plucked a chicken/turkey? No 8. Gathered wild ginseng? No 9. Eaten deer meat? ✅ 10. Eaten frog legs? ✅ 11. Fed a baby farm animal with a bottle? ✅ 12. Gathered fresh eggs? ✅ 13. Driven a stick shift? ✅ 14. Started a vehicle using a manual choke? ✅ 15. Rode in the back of a pick-up truck? No 16. Shucked corn? ✅ 17. Waded barefoot in a creek? ✅ 18. Caught fireflies in a jar at night? ✅ 19. Tasted wild honeysuckle? ✅ 20. Gathered wild blackberries? ✅ 21. Used an outhouse? ✅ 22. Rode a horse? ✅ 23. Smelled the scent of cured tobacco hanging in a tobacco barn? No 24. Taken the ashes out of a wood stove or wood heater? ✅ 25. Carried in wood? ✅ 26. Walked barefoot down a gravel or dirt road? ✅ 27. Slept in a tent? ✅ 28. Been attacked by a rooster? No 29. Eaten raw apple, potato or turnip off the blade of a pocket knife? ✅ 30. Dipped skoal or chewing tobacco or had it applied to a Bee sting? ✅ 31. Eaten homemade snow Ice Cream? ✅ 32. Used a pump to draw water from a well? No 33. Been on a hayride? ✅ 34. Jumped into a pile of raked leaves? ✅ 35. Carved your initials into a tree? No 36. Sucked on a piece of water hose to siphon gas out of a gas tank? No 37. Been shocked by an electric fence? No 38. Split wood with an ax? No 39. Hung laundry outside on a clothesline to dry? ✅ 40. Eaten fried bologna? ✅

I refuse to argue a red herring. The Covid vaccine is not like a polio vaccine or smallpox. It doesn’t confer immunity but allows your system to recognize the antigen for the attachment site of the virus to the human organism. Any entity with the same antigen will be attacked by the human immune response. The immune response, if not overactive, helps prevent cytokine storm which turns lungs to soup. I’ve seen pictures first handedly. Covid is new to humans because it has been transposed in some currently unknown manner to attack humans. Coronaviruses mutate too fast to eradicate with a vaccine. That is why the common cold that is that class of viruses is still around and no vaccine has been made! A similar process is in effect with Covid-19, in that natural occurring coronaviruses also constantly mutate like the cold virus so that these viruses are resistant to a vaccine in the long term. The virus classes that effective vaccines have been made against do not mutate at the rate the coronaviruses and cold viruses do and those effective vaccines are not specifically directed to a single antigen like the Covid-19 vaccine, The Covid vaccine is designed to recognize and develop an immune response to the attachment antigen on the virus. THAT is about as simple as I can explain!!

Watch what you feed your head. evidently ….. Too much Fox News…. 🤪 Heard it playing the other day and they are STILL talking about a stolen election. Geez. Pumping out vituperation and conspiracy theory is all they do at that “news” vender. Sad Covid is still a stumbling block. I hope everyone feels better soon. On the up side, what better natural immunity can you build than from true infection if you can tolerate it. Damn Covid!

7/19/89 Alpine Valley Beer Barrel Polka tuning -> Hell in A Bucket because I was there !!

5/12/74

Sitting on Top of the World-> Morning Dew ❤️‍🔥 Here Comes Sunshine🌹 Help Slip Franklins😍 any of those do me right !!

Personally I like second set Truckin Nobody’s Fault but mine the Other One mind left body jam row Jimmy big River ship of Fools Sugar Mag

.....Omni (Hotel) ......The former Omni Coliseum is now Phillips Arena, I miss the old Omni interior. Attended some fantastic drum circles in the outside corner niches , too! First show at 16 was there. Got an outstanding Terrapin and Wharf Rat.

Hey Now! Happy Thanksgiving you turkeys!! I'm catching the Friday show with the energizer bunny. Gonna be at the Omni. Can't wait to see our boys and one spectacular gal crush it! Peace Love and Thanksgiving!

I have no expectations of commiserating or return on my expression. Do with what is your hand. coronaviruses mutate and a COVID-19 “vaccine” for lack of a better word doesn’t promise eradication like a polio vaccine.

Yeah, tell that to the ladies here who lost their almost full term babies that my father autopsied with placentas riddled with clots and hemorrhage due to Covid infection. 💔💙