Here’s a video from son Joseph Raines, an artist expanding his media set. I found it entertaining and hope you enjoy it as well.
If you’d like to see more, Joseph’s work is on YouTube.

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The Brownsville Herald ran an interesting three inches on a report by the Center for Responsive Politics on investments held by members of Congress in Department of Defense contract holders. It does make us wonder, among many other questions, why certain of these representatives and senators did not abstain from voting on war related [...]

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Jim Abbott sent a link to this video. It is entertaining and informative, particularly if you are in the habit of keeping squid in your pockets or if you have any curiosity about the life of the sea.

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I suppose that’s one reason I’m publishing quite a few poems recently. It won’t last long. I haven’t written new verse in some time. I do keep my little notebooks in a pocket most of the time and a pen on the off chance that a really good idea is going to run across the [...]

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Nothing perfects the world like darkness
There’s no quiet past the silence of the shadow.
A long moment of flight.
Pleasant songs are your whispers and sighs
And our closed eyes make for clear seeing
In this calm absence of light.
It’s now we find one true communion
As distractions of details recede
In a world at last made right.
Tumbledown and ruckus will [...]

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