Monday, October 30, 2006

halloween stories

In preparation for Halloween, I asked the group to share stories about their favorite Halloween memories. Here are two, one is fact and one is fiction:

My Favorite Halloween, by Maryah

My favorite Halloween I was sick and couldn't go trick-or-treating. To ensure that the day wasn't ruined for me, my mom had me dress up anyway as a ghost and trick-or-treat at the bathroom door. She went out and bought all kinds of candy for me and three different wigs for herself so she'd look different each time I went to the door.

Then, when my sister's got home they all gave me some of their candy. I got more candy that year from being sick at home than I would have going out, and I didn't have to get wet! And I thought that I was just going to stay home and watch Halloween with Mom and Dad.

Dilly's Halloween, by Dilly Scott

Dilly donned her Halloween costume -- a beautiful, sleek black cat. Who would she meet? A handsome politician, a political social worker, kids that she'd given raisins to, lonely people who watched a movie that was an extension of an old fun t.v. program, some art lovers?

She danced with an important handsome man and gave him and earful of polite conversation. I love people, the planet, my family, pets, suggestions. He told his aunt she was pleasant and helpful. Dilly loved the band, she wanted the Halloween Festival to be part of harvest time so that people didn't hurt inside, feel put down, but that they wanted to go forward even with winter coming on to make the planet a better place to live come spring.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

waxing political

There must have been some kind of interesting, planetary alignment last week because a *ton* of people came to group. Which was pretty awesome as group tends to be pretty small. Small groups are cozy, but it was really exciting to have so many different voices around.

Two first-timers, completely independent of each other, felt moved by politics and wrote really interesting political pieces. Here they are.

Thoughts by Greatness, 9/28/06

To date, it has been found that the Oregon system or, generally, life, society, and or governement is infringed upon by an unusual assortment of antisocial waywards who openly -- like no other time in regional history that I can immediately recall -- vie for illicit taxation profiteering. A single aspect to expose would be the haphazard use of ultra-sophisticated equipment to suppress a timely nullification by authorities or audaciously coerce collusion.

The overall scheme of garnering all illicit tax is lazy minded short cutting. With reflecting upon an old adage which holds that "there are no short cuts to get to a place worth going to," all who can refrain from the untimely and express should only expect that the life and society from which they evolve will not be so ill effected.

Thank You Governor, by 55 year old voter

Thank you Governor, you have my vote! I am sick to death of dirty politics! Every election there is the continuous bashing of opponents not excluding your opponent! I will not vote for Saxton, Holey or her opponent who's name escapes me at this moment. Those two have said nothing about any issues! I will not vote for either one! "Write in" has my vote!