Category Archives: america

TO THE DOOR by Peter Nolan Smith

November 12, 2024 – 9:37 am

Published on: Jan 6, 2012 I-5 ran south out of Sacramento. The day was getting hot in the Central Valley and AK cranked up the Torino’s AC. I turned around several times to be disappointed that Carol wasn’t in the backseat. A whisper of her rose attar fragrance clung to the car. She and her […]

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Quote of the Day – Jack Kerouac / ON THE ROAD

November 7, 2024 – 2:59 am

Written May 8, 2011 “One of the biggest troubles of hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people, make them feel that they didn’t make a mistake picking you up.” Jack Kerouac / ON THE ROAD Truman Capote commented about the writing style of ON THE ROAD, saying it wasn’t writing so much as typing. […]

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Calm Before The Inner Calm

November 6, 2024 – 11:00 am

I’m sitting in front of Larina. Calm under a sky deepening to velvet blue. Velvet not dark Not many people on the street. Not many cars either. Calm Maybe the calm before Kamala___ In my mind the USA has elected a woman A hundred and four years After they got the vote___ A warm autumn […]

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US Elections 2024

November 6, 2024 – 9:47 am

Donald Trump has resumed his role as Leader of the American people in a devastating loss for the Kamala Harris. Her Kumbaya Joy campaign after Biden’s protracted abdication coupled with the wars in Ukraine, inflation, and emigration left the Democratic Vice President little time to combat the GOP leader’s headstart. The defections of Latinos and […]

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October 13, 1492

October 13, 2024 – 8:31 am

Recently I have been reading THE FOUR VOYAGES by Cristoforo Colombo translated by JM Cohen. A great read of exploration, but disquieting with early entries predicting the extermination of the Arawaks or Tainos who inhabited the Caribbean and Central America. For centuries western historians guiltcaped the extinction by blaming the disappearance of the egalitarian culture […]

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