Transcript of the 1967 SF Oracle Houseboat Summit: “This is Alan Watts speaking, and I’m this evening, on my ferry boat, the host to a fascinating party sponsored by the San Francisco Oracle,
which is our new underground paper, far-outer than any far-out that has yet been seen. And we have here, members of the staff of the
Oracle. We have Allen Ginsberg, poet, and rabbinic saddhu. We have Timothy Leary, about whom nothing needs to be said. (laughs) And
Gary Snyder, also poet, Zen monk, and old friend of many years.” Ah, those were the days…Missing only Ram Dass… [via boing boing]

Riprap

Lay down these words

Before your mind like rocks.

placed solid, by hands

In choice of place, set

Before the body of the mind

in space and time:

Solidity of bark, leaf or wall

riprap of things:

Cobble of milky way,

straying planets,

These poems, people,

lost ponies with

Dragging saddles —

and rocky sure-foot trails.

The worlds like an endless

four-dimensional

Game of Go.

ants and pebbles

In the thin loam, each rock a word

a creek-washed stone

Granite: ingrained

with torment of fire and weight

Crystal and sediment linked hot

all change, in thoughts,

As well as things.

— Gary Snyder

[via Obscure Store]: Woman left for dead by rescuers, calls 911 a second time for help after a suicide attempt. [As a psychiatrist at the receiving end of ambulance transports of suicide attempters, I can tell you that the EMTs don’t always have the highest opinion of this segment of their clientele.]

Faithless Elector Watch: NPR commentator Daniel Schorr joins the ranks of those asking Republican electors to honor the will of the majority. In fact, Citizens for True Democracy and the Coalition Coalition have posted contact information for electors, who are feeling a little besieged as a result.

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