May 25, 2006
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THURSDAY WHATEVERThe garden is with morning,
and you lean above an iris
looking young.
The ground is warm. A leaf
has fallen to my lap,
my thoughts are slow.
I think in shadow patterns
realizing that the sun moves,
and that you have touched my hand,
but nothing more.
Deep Thought:
“Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word
itself: “Mankind.” Basically, it’s made up of two separate words -
“mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s
why so is mankind.”
Today I am grateful for: Kin.
Guess the Movie: “No, I
have to do this my way. You tell me what you know, and I’ll confirm.
I’ll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that’s all. Just…
follow the money. “
Answer: All the President’s Men, 1976. Winner: lostyetlooking.
First Female Conscientious Objector Sentenced for Refusing Deployment to Afghanistan
FORT BENNING, Georgia – May 24 – Army National Guard Specialist
Katherine Jashinski received a bad conduct discharge today and was
sentenced to 120 days confinement after pleading guilty to the charge
of “refusal to obey a legal order.” She was acquitted of the more
serious charge of “missing movement by design.” With 53 days already
served (on Fort Benning), and 20 days off for good behavior, Ms.
Jashinski has 47 days of confinement remaining. (Rest of article here.)
Comments (31)
I like your Thursday Whatever. Thank You. : – )
I always love your deepthoughts
This is a great post! Love the poem and the Deep Thought.
The concientious objector, though…she shouldn’t have signed on the dotted line and sworn to go kill people wherever she is ordered to go and kill people. It’s not glamorous…but that’s a serious thing to swear to do and then back out on. What was she thinking?
On a lighter note, how are you today? I read your posts, but am wondering about the Lionne behind the scenes….
Take care,
John
Is the movie All the Presidents Men?
iris- the tennessee state flower
iris is a name too
All The President’s Men – geronimo!
Deep Throat to Woodward. Deep Throat to Woodward. (ATPM)!! Good movie. ~lea
might be thursday but this was not whatever! *wink*
Deep backwards is peed.
Don’t you hate when you hit submit and you don’t think it’s submitting and then you hit it again and then you see the stupid thing that you typed comes out twice?
Don’t you hate that?
First Female Conscientious Objector Sentenced for Refusing Deployment to Afghanistan
She rocks!
I was a conscientious objector during Viet Nam.
aw, such a great poem.
“my thoughts are slow”
I love that line.
I agree with C_L_O_G, standing up for what one believes in is always awe-inspiring to me. Another wonderful poem as well.
Most enjoyable blog. Ah, yes. Hal Holbrook.
I’m surrounded by purple iris and they smell like grape candy. It’s divine – I wish they’d stay longer. Your poem is beautiful.
All the president’s men
Love the poem! Is it yours? So nicely written….
thank you so much for your support….it’s been trying times lately, but i’m getting through it. but i don’t i’m helping myself my reading gunter grass….
ryc: yeah, right smack on the front of Time Magazine…awesome.
Where did you get the Zen Button?
Oh, I liked this one. The photo goes along with it so perfectly….makes me think of thise perfect summer mornings where you just want to lounge around the garden. Nicely done.
I love your poem abd of course the deepb thought for the day
Thank you. You’re right. I found several.
hi there
Follow the money…the bumper sticker for America’s soul…thanks for all your wisdom.
It sounds more like Failure To Obey A Direct Order to me. A real Conscientious Objector would never have joined the military.
Thank ye for what ya said on my blog. I get that way about my writing on occasion for whatever reason and, of course, gotta blog about it.
I really like the poems you post and this one too. This one provokes slow, lazy mornin’s for me.
great poem. I did read about the objector…
great to read your comments! to let you know…that sound is actually the purring of Taupe…the kitty sleeping on the mini-couch in the photo for my profile.
i really like the poem, but not quite sure why yet…but i’ll definitely be reading it over many more times today.
hope you have a super weekend!
Hi there!
You always put together such intersting posts.
Beautiful.