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    January 13

    syncro vanagon needs new home & TLC

     

    The 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro Minivan I once owned.  
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    I was the  original owner (and the legendary "little ol lady", having babied it and rarely took it over 61 mph!) I never had reason to take it "off-roading" -- except for the dirt roads that can be seen in some of the photos. Often went on state forest dirt roads for TrailCares (hiking trail maintenance).

    • 4 + L speed Manual transmission, Baulk-synchronized with additional compound Low-speed traction gear
    • water-cooled gasoline engine, 2.1 L fuel-injected engine, digifant engine management system
    • Syncro 4-wheel-drive, ("all wheel drive"), manually-operated locking rear differential (what is this?)
    • 14-inch steel wheels,
    • high ground clearance, skidplates underneath
    • Folding rear bench seat/bed combination *,
    • 2 rear-facing removable seats **, grey cloth interior, rear compartment heater, 18.5 gallon fuel tank.
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      Power rack & pinion steering, power front disc/rear drum brakes, independent front suspension, coil springs & telescopic shock absorbers, front & rear, double-jointed drive shafts  
    December 01

    No War No More

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    No War No More, a collection of poems, essays, photos and artwork for peace, had finally been published. Doug Fowler, Diana Ludwig and Arya Jenkins worked on this project for some time. Thanks to Doug's fastidiousness and Diana's talents with layout, this project finally came to fruition. NWNM contains work by Doug, Diana, and Arya, as well as Pauline Beck, Donna Brennan, J. D. Curtis, Jim Jordan, Staughton Lynd, Tenzin Palmo, Richard Pirko, Teresa Saska and Bob Studzinski.

    Proceeds from sales of the book will benefit the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery Project in northern India. The nunnery, which was started by Tenzin Palmo, educates nuns in the Kagyu lineage. Some of those nuns will return to their communities as counselors and teachers. More information about Tenzin Palmo's project can be found at www.tenzinpalmo.com
    July 27

    fox owls

    Katy-dids rasping noisy across from the cemetary in the cool,  foxes howl for hours from  gravel stoops in front of their burrows,  barn owls screech into the window from their tree perches...half dozen young coon romp about the legs of deer meandering in the fog, crows call, 2 bronze turkey heads sinking down to the river through the rhodadendron, a red sedan in flames on the hairpin turn to Fischer, a pair of spotted fawns with their mom along the interstate.
    Hounddog Taylor 
    February 21

    WNWG Presents--ta da!

     
    There is a really neat collection of short stories by some creative Youngstown, Ohio writers out now that can be
    checked out at:   WNWG Presents Collection of Short Stories on Amazon.
    All their exploits can be delved into at their literary station: WNWG Wednesday Night Writing Group
     
    Their publisher has a page for it also: WNWG Presents book
     
    I just got done being highly entertained by one of the authors ( Ms. Koocher) stories (both fiction and non-fiction) at
     
    A preview of the illustrations can be viewed at Storm Bird Studios
     
    October 27

    art rain

    wet-leaved-trees, gold and dropping; a squishy wet coon all pink in the center of the road, a soggy kitty lying in the rain, a wet chocolate lab amblets alongside flooded oak savannah, bird-dog
    Blue faded industrial buildings where he used to wrok, right there is where in the cool air they broke and spoke of poetry...bright fires glowing and sparking in the night.
    Janice sews our curtains. Tell David about the witch.
    circuitcity woolybear all squished--what were you doing there?!
    Red potato rolling across the floor.
    sweet light crude---a most beauteous phrase of my times, say it over and over. and overMissing large beds, nuturing vegetable growth and entering pies in apple festivals...
    June 20

    words

     
    BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS

    "Matamoras Banks"

    (Each year many die crossing the deserts,
    mountains and rivers of our southern border
    in search of a better life. Here I follow the
    journey backwards, from the body at the
    river bottom, to the man walking across
    the desert towards the banks of the Rio Grande.)

    For two days the river keeps you down
    Then you rise to the light without a sound
    Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards
    The turtles eat the skin from your eyes, so they lay open to the stars

    Your clothes give way to the current and river stone
    'Till every trace of who you ever were is gone
    And the things of the earth they make their claim
    That the things of heaven may do the same

    Goodbye, my darling, for your love I give God thanks,
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros banks

    Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds
    I walk on sandals of twine and tire tread
    My pockets full of dust, my mouth filled with cool stone
    The pale moon opens the earth to its bones
    I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks
    The touch of your loving fingertips
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros banks

    Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind
    I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again
    The lights of Brownsville, across the river shine
    A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive
    I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks
    A touch of your loving fingertips
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros
    Meet me on the Matamoros banks


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