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Truisms Unknown author Following the crowd provides security Many of the things you want are worthless Everything is an integral of everything else Almost no one finds their match Strangers don’t want to know you Crowds create their own power Things left undone become harder People are attracted to what they can’t have Power is passed to those near it You can only screw yourself Only certain types are religious A court of law is designed to intimidate Almost everyone will take advantage of you if you let them People put too much energy into money Time goes by faster as you get older Traveling far makes you appreciate home more Do what you want to do most The point is to be fulfilled People only care about their own neighborhood Thoughts today are the oldest thoughts yet You will grow to be better or worse People let other people kill themselves All politics is based only on favors You are art Nature always wins Loneliness is not contagious Most Weirdos want to be You are your actions ...
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Raising Ezra Taking another look at Idaho's most famous poet/conspiracy theorist BY TONY EVANS From the Boise Weekly newspaper: http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A314959 O n the porch of a white Victorian house on Pine Street in Hailey, a bronze plaque commemorates the birthplace of the Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, 1885-1972. The plaque reads, "I have beaten out my exile." The quote is from Pound's poem "The Rest," a tribute to artists and "Lovers of beauty ... starved, thwarted with systems, helpless against the control." Pound was an irascible expatriate who left America as a young man and lived many years in rented flats in London and Paris. He spent his last years in silent exile in Venice, Italy, having been branded an anti-Semite and traitor to the United States. Only a controversial plea of insanity kept him from standing trial and perhaps from hanging. After spending 12 years in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the insane ...
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Solstice update from Munch

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It is the sere season in the desert, and the sight of clouds on the southern horizon has me salivating....images of billowing, dark rain-laden thunderheads boiling up into the stratosphere promising a cool drenching accented with crashing thunder and sudden lightning fill my dreams....but today it is 109 degrees Fahrenheit with a blast furnace wind sucking the moisture from every leaf and skin cell. Spring gave us warm days and cool evenings, with fresh air to fill the house each morning. Successive waves of color and scent rolled through the desert, with puddles of colorful petals falling like skirts around the trees and shrubs....yellow & orange around the palo verdes, red beneath the ocotillo, hot pink and purple circling the texas rangers....all beckoning our chakras to open and soak up this abundance against the dessicated times to come. Young birds have fledged with the promise to renew life for another season: Bell's vireos, Say's phoebes, verdins, black-tailed g...
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THIRD GRADE Honorable Mention - Kate Schassler Mary E. Dardess Elementary Teacher - Sandy Myers "Save the Water (and Yourself)" When the weather gets hotter, I look forward to a drink of water. We need water to survive, If we don't have it, our population could be 0-5. We each spend almost 100 gallons of water each day, Do we want to waste that much, NO WAY!! So save water, as much as you can, And when you're hot, just use a fan!
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Nice job Statesman Kudos to the heads-up Idaho Statesman front desk personnel for recognizing that Eusebio Arriaga’s remarkable life story deserved much more than a cold obituary draft and for calling Tim Woodward to help. A further step Mr. Arriaga might consider taking (if he has not already yet done so), is to share his interesting narrative, by recording it orally with one of Idaho Regional Historians. As I started writing this, the Statesman ran an in-depth story about oral history programs, where they recommend several ways of participating in these . It would also be nice to see libraries and historical societies link their websites in better with those of local newspapers and vice versa. For instance, when a writer tells a remarkable story such as Mr. Arriaga’s, readers who are curious to discover more, could link directly into a regional history database. A way for the Statesman and other newspapers to continue to be innovative, in our fast-paced information age, would b...
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