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there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
A true friend when I needed one.I haven't forgotten.Give Mutt a hug for me. :~(
We miss ya Dan:>(
About Me
- mtjimi
- Recovering Catholic,eight years of church every morning...I'm done. I'll eat when I'm hungry,Drink when I'm dry and live my life on the square.
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Cracked Pot
An elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it. The other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years, this went on daily, with the woman only bringing home one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, but the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfections and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.
"I'm ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled. "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I've been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that makes our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
So, to all my cracked pot friends, have a luvly day and remember to smell the flowers on our side of the path.
For a full two years, this went on daily, with the woman only bringing home one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, but the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfections and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.
"I'm ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled. "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I've been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that makes our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.
So, to all my cracked pot friends, have a luvly day and remember to smell the flowers on our side of the path.
Charles Bukowski - Bluebird
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
The HI-HO Motel,Ventura Blvd.
Nobody's planting palm trees east of Carpenter, but the gentrification is clearly under way. And, despite a proposed ordinance that could make building more difficult, the pace of development on this segment of the San Fernando Valley's most important street does not appear to be slackening.
Several Projects Planned
New shopping centers, a large mall, new office space and several new restaurants are under construction or being planned between Carpenter and Lankershim Boulevard. Some are already completed. A few of the new projects are run-of-the-mill convenience centers with tenants such as dry cleaners and doughnut shops. But others are substantially fancier, with upscale eateries and shops.
At the same time, there are fewer of the motels that once gave the place a bad name, and that continue to be home for some low-income residents.
Perhaps symbolic of what is happening east of Laurel Canyon is the change of focus of Arthur Bender, a Sherman Oaks developer who owned the Hi-Ho Motel on Ventura Boulevard. Despite his denials, authorities had alleged the Hi-Ho was a haven for prostitutes. Using its "red light abatement" law, the city went to court to close the motel.
The court action failed--Bender said there was never a prostitution conviction tied to the motel when he owned it--but in April he knocked down the Hi-Ho.
...........................................................................................................................This makes me sad..................I spent some time there, way before ho was a ho. Those were some good times........
Several Projects Planned
New shopping centers, a large mall, new office space and several new restaurants are under construction or being planned between Carpenter and Lankershim Boulevard. Some are already completed. A few of the new projects are run-of-the-mill convenience centers with tenants such as dry cleaners and doughnut shops. But others are substantially fancier, with upscale eateries and shops.
At the same time, there are fewer of the motels that once gave the place a bad name, and that continue to be home for some low-income residents.
Perhaps symbolic of what is happening east of Laurel Canyon is the change of focus of Arthur Bender, a Sherman Oaks developer who owned the Hi-Ho Motel on Ventura Boulevard. Despite his denials, authorities had alleged the Hi-Ho was a haven for prostitutes. Using its "red light abatement" law, the city went to court to close the motel.
The court action failed--Bender said there was never a prostitution conviction tied to the motel when he owned it--but in April he knocked down the Hi-Ho.
...........................................................................................................................This makes me sad..................I spent some time there, way before ho was a ho. Those were some good times........
Doris Lorraine Patterson Givens.Sept.24 2009
A true friend when I needed one.I haven't forgotten.Give Mutt a hug for me. :~(
Daniel E. Coates; Sept,8 2007
We miss ya Dan:>(
Single-payer health care .
Single-payer health care insurance is a public service financing the delivery of near-universal or universal health care to a given population as defined by age, citizenship, residency, or any other demographic.
Single-payer health insurance collects all medical fees and then pays for all services through a single government (or government-related) source. In wealthy nations, this kind of publicly-managed health insurance is typically extended to all citizens or legal residents. A single-payer national insurance plan, H.R. 676, the "National Health Care Act," is expected to be voted on and debated by the U.S. House of Representatives as a replacement to H.R. 3200, the "Affordable Health Choices Act," in September. H.R. 676 would replace private insurance companies with such a publicly-managed insurance.
The fund can be managed by the government directly or as a publicly owned and regulated agency. Australia's Medicare, Canada's Medicare, and healthcare in Taiwan are examples of single-payer universal health care systems.
The term 'single payer' refers to funding and does not imply a socialized medicine system. A socialized medical system is one "in which all health personnel and health facilities, including doctors and hospitals, work for the government and draw salaries from the government," an example being the U.S. Veterans Administration, while U.S. Medicare is a single payer system which is not socialized medicine.
In Canadian Medicare, which is a single-payer insurance available to all citizens, doctors may work in private practices or for public or private hospitals, each of which is in turn paid by government health insurance. Under the United Kingdom's National Health Service, which also uses a universal single-payer fund, the public owns the health systems and facilities. The term single-payer thus only describes the funding mechanism—referring to health care being paid for by a single public body—and does not specify the type of delivery, or who doctors work for.
As regards health care reform in the United States, it is the only high-income industrialized country in the world that does not have some version of national universal public health insurance; although every state has a public health care system of some kind, they do not provide guaranteed universal coverage. The majority of physicians in the United States are in favor of national health insurance system. A recent study published in 2008 in Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading medical journal, showed 59% of physicians “support government legislation to establish national health insurance,” while 32% oppose it and 9% are neutral. This represented an increase of 10 percentage points as compared with a similar survey in 2002 in which support for such legislation stood at 49% of physicians. Among the general U.S. public, recent polling ratings for single-payer are apparently dependent on wording, ranging from 49% to 65% in favor.
Single-payer health insurance collects all medical fees and then pays for all services through a single government (or government-related) source. In wealthy nations, this kind of publicly-managed health insurance is typically extended to all citizens or legal residents. A single-payer national insurance plan, H.R. 676, the "National Health Care Act," is expected to be voted on and debated by the U.S. House of Representatives as a replacement to H.R. 3200, the "Affordable Health Choices Act," in September. H.R. 676 would replace private insurance companies with such a publicly-managed insurance.
The fund can be managed by the government directly or as a publicly owned and regulated agency. Australia's Medicare, Canada's Medicare, and healthcare in Taiwan are examples of single-payer universal health care systems.
The term 'single payer' refers to funding and does not imply a socialized medicine system. A socialized medical system is one "in which all health personnel and health facilities, including doctors and hospitals, work for the government and draw salaries from the government," an example being the U.S. Veterans Administration, while U.S. Medicare is a single payer system which is not socialized medicine.
In Canadian Medicare, which is a single-payer insurance available to all citizens, doctors may work in private practices or for public or private hospitals, each of which is in turn paid by government health insurance. Under the United Kingdom's National Health Service, which also uses a universal single-payer fund, the public owns the health systems and facilities. The term single-payer thus only describes the funding mechanism—referring to health care being paid for by a single public body—and does not specify the type of delivery, or who doctors work for.
As regards health care reform in the United States, it is the only high-income industrialized country in the world that does not have some version of national universal public health insurance; although every state has a public health care system of some kind, they do not provide guaranteed universal coverage. The majority of physicians in the United States are in favor of national health insurance system. A recent study published in 2008 in Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading medical journal, showed 59% of physicians “support government legislation to establish national health insurance,” while 32% oppose it and 9% are neutral. This represented an increase of 10 percentage points as compared with a similar survey in 2002 in which support for such legislation stood at 49% of physicians. Among the general U.S. public, recent polling ratings for single-payer are apparently dependent on wording, ranging from 49% to 65% in favor.
Vielen Dank, genießen;o)