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Continue reading →: Know Your Rights / Conozca Sus Derechos
English: With everything happening regarding immigration and detentions, it is crucial for everyone—including immigrants, regardless of status—to understand how to respond if stopped or approached by immigration authorities. If you have access to a lawyer or a free legal service that assists immigrants in protecting their rights, I highly recommend…
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Continue reading →: The Birth of Hope
The Birth of Hope swiftly pour the sparkling sands though fingers stretch to slow them, into that ancient cradle blue returned by careless time earthen jar now emptied out falls crumbling to the shoreline, while briny tears like glittering jewels, are cast for pauper’s solace, now darkest night the silence…
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Continue reading →: Is This the End?
In 2022, I posed a rhetorical question to Facebook in response to its prompt: “How are you doing today?” I then asked ChatGPT the same question I had asked Facebook, and here was its surprisingly thoughtful response. Dear Friend, Your heartfelt words express a frustration and pain that resonate with…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Trump: A Conversation with AI
This was a conversation and speculative analysis with an AI system in an effort to “talk” through some of my perceptions of Donald Trump’s behaviors. It may be wrong, it may be right, or a mixture of both. Nevertheless, I am impressed by the AI as a tool and present…
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Continue reading →: Mono Que Habla
I haven’t posted in a while. The world is wobbly. My younger brother Carlos passed away a few weeks ago, and our dog Lucky died a few days after that. We are getting older and struggling with our health a bit and trying to figure out how we can make…
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Continue reading →: Where is the Home of Sadness?
Where is the home of sadness? It lies within me. I have tried to evict it, turned off the electricity, denied it sustenance and yet it refuses to leave. I have forced the sun to shine, blasting light at the yellowed shade and the soiled green curtains. They seem a…
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Continue reading →: The Bridge
Sometimes I feel that I stand on a bridge between two worlds. The knotted ropes that bind the slats are frayed, reduced to a mere pittance of turnings. From the top of the towers dotting each land angry voices call the people to war. They rise from the valleys to…
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Continue reading →: Random Thoughts: Politics, Spirituality & Labeling
I am a Christian – and I don’t say that to make anyone uncomfortable or to assert some sort of specialness. Sometimes people wear their religious, or political party affiliations, their positions on a variety of issues like gun ownership or abortion like merit badges on a sash. It gives…
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Continue reading →: Where Goes The Mismatched Man?
Where goes the mismatched man, I passed along my way? His seven fingered hands were coal his yard long toes were clay. His knotted wooden head was oak, thrust up – a great whale breaching. His shoulders seemed a parapet, far beyond my reaching. I trembled as he thundered by,…
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Continue reading →: Dulcet’s Hammers
[su_note note_color=”#fcfcef”]This is another fragment and not polished. It features Dulcet. She is a ‘gutter smith’ with hidden depths and strength she has yet to discover. Her father once had great talent but has been bent by life and drug use into a bitter self-loathing man. He is abusive towards…
Hello,
I’m Burt
Just a place for my wandering mind to occasionally drop some thoughts…
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