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Thursday, February 23th, 2012
"From the inside looking out" after gunshots rang through the neighbourhood at 8:30 a.m.
“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
Salvador Dalí
“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.'
You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.”
Bill Hicks
“Some of us look for the way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some of us in love. It is all the same way and it leads nowhither.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”
M.C. Escher
What do we say? What do we do?
Linda Seccaspina
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.”
Kurt Cobain
For the love of a drug deal
Well I did get a photo credit for all this sadness and so glad he is okay
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/02/23/breaking-berkeley-high-student-shot-in-oakland/
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/oakland-police-investigating-four-shootings-wednes/nJzKw/
Photos by Linda Seccaspina 2012
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Dali, Escher, Bill Hicks... good stuff
I tried every drug once, out of curiousity, but managed to never get addicted. It is deadly stuff.
r.
Zanelle: people are dropping like flies around here.
Michelle: no insight just a lot of emotion today
Kevin.. no just too close for comfort today
jon: you have to be hardnosed to live around here.
hugs to you jon and cathy
Keith Richards
R
All so sad.
I hope your day gets better.
xoxoxo
Chicago ...
Lezlie
I was reading a novel that took a slight dive into the British Opium business in India. Starving families worked under threat of the death penalty if they did not meet their opium growing quotas by using their own land. Many families did not have enough time and land left over to feed themselves.
Anything that came after that British opium trade was just the natural progress of a business that, once started, cannot be stopped.
Hugs for you, Linda.
Designanator: Its way up over last year ad it is still February
Thanks Claire
Out on a Limb: especially if you are a target
Hayley;says it all
Cranky: Steve is coming home
JT: me too I am still shaking
Lezlie ; and we fight wars in Iraq.. the war is here
Zuma.. I had no idea.. woww
If I were ever to see anything like the pictures you posted, I would be absolutely traumatized!
rated with love
I don't know how anyone says out of the crossfire, but take care there.
HUGGGS.
To get u high. Outta here for awhile, man!
Outta where, pray tell? You still here!
Yeah but it is all different now.
How?
How? How? aintcha never gotten high?
Oh many times. Many things.
So you know.
I know this: our brains are tightly constructed for
dealing with immediacies. The Government wages an eternal
propaganda campaign on us to fear the Enemy, within our country
& without. To keep us controllable, and wanting consumer pleasures
to alleviate the unrest.
Drugs are like anything: too much, loses the effect. Cobain's quote is proof of that.
counterproductive.
if you gonna do a good drug, make it a holy ritual,
a sacrament.
Legalize most, now, quickly. if you care about the spilled blood of
weak people and harrasssed last chance entrepeneurs,
usually rather nice people.
As a species, evolutionarily, we have been doing drugs since
the beginning of Consciousness.
It's a heavy burden, to be aware.
Clean, healthy, aware, and in love is the goal..............
I thought the drugging thing was over but I guess not.
I agree Creekend. I am pretty shook up
Sarah.. HUGGGGGGG
R Poetess.. NO one is safe
Kim: You are so right and my insides are like an idling car right now
TG: I just added a pic.. its pretty graphic
Algis..far from it
Thanks Bobbot
Sheila: more life lost
Thanks Joan
I just added a photo, it's graphic ..
In the time it happened I uploaded two photos to the SF Chronicle and did the blog. After I was finished my adrenalin gave out and I started to shake. I hate reality sometimes.
EEK!!!
I'm just glad you're OK.
Tink.. insane isn't
Enemy: feel shell shocked now but I feel for these kids today.
That's okay
We get busy
Ay speechless
The SUN Magazine is in tune with you today.
March Issue 435
It's a powerful read
It's ref: Medications
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Vincent Van Gough:
`
I am not strictly speaking mad,
for my mind is absolutely normal
in the intervals and even more so
before.
But during the attacks it is terrible-
and then I lose consciousness of
everything.
But that spurs me n to work and to
seriousness,
like a minor who is always in danger
makes haste in what he/she does.
`
You sure research a painful problem.
I often wonder if politico/Wall Street
is so manic from street drug\cocaine.
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There certainly is a serious problem.
Maniacs snort powder and run for:
mayor, Pizza Parlor CEO, president.
etc.,
(I must visit a neighbor for You Tubes)
Maybe you should get a Flak Jacket.
~R~
Art James : you are right Wall Street madness.on drugs
Rugrat 17 going on 35
Leepin.. now thats fashionable
Thanks Erica
I so agree Maureen
Thanks MCS
Nola librarian- no its not I agree
And for a life to end.
As to your questions, I wish I knew. As Cranky says, stay safe.
rated
You will not be disappointed.
Please keep safe, my friend. Sending love---as always.