Author Archive: jamesralston@hotmail.com
OLD WHITE MEN
I stand firm with Ralph Waldo Emerson in what he said in “Self-Reliance” almost two hundred years ago: “Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other…. For everything that is given, something…
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SPIRITUAL REHAB
As you’re coming out of surgery, life looks pretty good. The knife and saw part is over. The long put off decision has been irreversibly made. You surrendered to the suspect medical establishment and had the damaged hip replaced….
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THANKS FOR THE SONGS, MR. COHEN
“Darkness becomes me,” is how I start a recent poem. On a playful level, I mean that as I age I become better looking in the darkness. More seriously, I mean that darkness becomes me as an instinct towards balance…
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THE PLUTOCRACY WINS AGAIN
A Clinton win Tuesday means probably eight more years of Clintons in the oval office. Ho, hum. That would make 20 of 28 years with either a Bush or Clinton at the helm, with Obama (another Wall Street President) sandwiched…
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