Samhain

Now and Zen
This is my favorite holiday of the year. Harvest time. People celebrating with pumpkins or jackfruit or whatever they please. The best part is dressing as one pleases. That should be the fun part.

It is a huge drag, though, that election time in this country immediately follows the celebration of the harvest, Day of the Dead and Samhain. This year, just like 4 years ago, the American people have been duped again into thinking that they are safe and secure in the hands of the people who run Washington, D.C.

I've always thought it odd that Bush has been given credit for anything. He, like Reagan, is a very plausible public speaker to those with little education and lacking in critical thinking skills. There is no excuse for people with education beyond the 8th grade voting for Bush. Sorry, but even the country's intellectual elite will vote for him. I'm not referring to those who might have gone to Yale on a scholarship. They worked for their education. How Bush got in is obvious: his family could pay, and etc.

On the whole, though, I'm an optimist. The media and Washington D.C. elite will not win this time.

Now and Zen

Now and Zen

Today I went with my class of cognitively challenged children, ages 5 to 8, to the pumpkin patch in San Francisco. One of the students, a female sumo wrestler, wouldn't get up off the floor to walk to the bus. As soon as we got there, one of the students cried for 20 minutes straight. Leaving, another student cried for 30 minutes really loud. I often wonder whether I have been given this job as a gift. There is much humility and patience that is required. The present is spiritual oneness.

Pumpkin, not always green,
Or orange, sometimes white
Raises its vine, yours.

Now and Zen

Now and Zen

It is time to blog again. So much is so complicated in this lifetime. I want to write a poem a day, so I will use the blogger for this. It's too bad I can't use the computer at work, because when I'm at home I'm very tired and unable to get much enthusiasm up for blogging. I will just include a haiku today for the sake of brevity.

Red Wood

Spindly fingers reach
To spin a favorite spine
And it comes up, strong.

The Delinquent Blogger

Sorry I have been away from blogging so long. I intend to blog at least once a day. Today is a holiday, Columbus Day, otherwise known as Indigenous People's Day, which is what I prefer to call it. I wonder if the taqueria is open.