Sprintedon Hollow

[ Note: "him" can be changed to, for example, "her" or "it" or "them"
            and "he" can likewise be changed to "she" or "it" or "they" ]



When You Want Him


When you want him,
he will be there,
he will be there,
be and for.

When you want him,
he will be there,
he will be there,
be and for.

    When you want him,
    really really want him,
    he will be there,
    be and for.

    When you want him,
    really really want him
    he will be there,
    be and for.

(repeat stanzas one and two)

    (repeat stanzas three and four)

    He will be there,
    be and for.

    He will be there,
    be and for.




Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-24    sl25 

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 Not sure where future entries are headed, and not sure if each
will address a single topic or single aspect of a topic; but am sure
the direction of each will be away from me.
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Today will be introductory.  Might try doing this alphabetically
since that would make it easier all around.  Some of the topics
will be ones I have long had an interest in; some will be topics
I know little to nothing about.  Diverse destinations.  My hope  
is this will be both enjoyable and useful.
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As you know, there are many excellent sites online, and rank
is not a true measure.  So, while I have links in S H's sidebar
sections, you are welcome to mention one you favor.
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Most of us in this nation hunger for changes that will benefit
every citizen, from the poorest to the wealthiest.  AlterNet:
www.alternet.org  current issues articles  Read specifically 
Matt Taibbi's class war article: "Economic Realities . . .".





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Brian A J Salchert    2008-07-23    diary51 

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   human poet
   2006/11/05/sw00007a-human.poet/748
   . . . . .

   2006-09-06 about me
   2006/11/19/sw00028a-about.me/793
   . . . . .

   sexuality
   2007/02/22/sw00227a-sexuality/1190 
   . . . . .

   June 9, 1984 Graduate Record Exam / and
   2007/03/11/sw00258a-gre1984june09uf/1238
   . . . . .

   about me #2
   2007/09/19/sw00617a-bio.me2/2222
   . . . . .



Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-21    Autobio68    

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 Herein are links to information about your money
and the instituions holding it.  The first link goes to
a WalletPop article by Sarah Gilbert from 15jul08:
How safe is your money?  .....

The second link goes to a page provided by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
where private companies which rate banks
and related institutions are alphabetically listed.
If you need to, or are just curious, browse this list.
.....



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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-20    diary50  

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My guess is I put together this handmade wee chapbook in 1965,
but it may have been 1964.  The blue edge in this image is beyond
the cover.  Seventeen poems are in it and a never-used fragment 
of another poem.  That fragment/ and eight of the poems are not
online.  Some use rhyme.  Here is one of those.

~ ~ ~

The Rueful Soldier


I have walked these miles before
Here on McClosky's dusty road,
Kicked the dying leaves aside
And thrown a pebble at a toad.

Once I even caught a child
Who fell down milkweed Martin's hill;
Stumbled silly, as it were.
You see these scars?  They prove it, Will.

There I stooped to tear the flower
Adele could weave among her curls;
Held a rifle near my hip,
As we do now, though then for squirrels.


   from Bare Roots and Ragged Limbs
   by Brian Arthur Salchert 



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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-19    diary49    

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 Three at AlterNet:


.....  Danny Schechter
          Be sure to read closing sentence.


.....  William Greider
          Don't miss what's in the banner.


.....  Questioner: Don Hazen   Responder: Drummond Pike
          This one is four pages long.  What it's about is in banner.



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Brian A J Salchert    2008-07-18    diary48

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from Times Online
July 15, 2008
article by Jonathan Richards
"YouTube gets reprieve in Viacom piracy case"

.....



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Brian A J Salchert    2008-07-17    diary47

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  I do a lot of research when online.

When I go to a site I am particularly interested in,
I often read not only the post before me, but also
all or most of the comments beneath that post.

Sometimes I read other posts and investigate
links from posts.  Have many times found 
information of value to me through this habit.

If something in a post triggers thoughts in me I
think are worth sharing, I leave a comment; but,
if others have commented, and one or more of
those comments already covered the topic in my
head, I don't comment.

I regularly go to Wikipedia first when I am
seeking general knowledge.  Doing so is not
always worth the effort, but there are some
excellent postings there, such as the long
Led Zeppelin one.

As I have said elsewhere: The Internet is
my house of learning.

Much of what is usually on the AOL Welcome
screen does not interest me, but I seldom just
pass it by.



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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-15    diary46

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 The link here is to Douglas Rushkoff's 
"The Next Renaissance" keynote address
available at Edge (www.edge.org).  .....



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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-15    diary45

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Edges of Knowledge


2006-02-04  Saturday  10:40pm dc est
-
The turtling minutes
only prolong
my tattetale agonies.

2006-02-05  Sunday  11:44am cc est
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Have been thinking about/
and trying to figure how to phrase:
I believe/ there is a God--
call Him Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah,/
or as I have at times: Rune God;/
or as you prefer--
and that this God is/
a Three-Person God:
Father Creator Sustainer,
Son Redeemer Sustainer,
Love Enlightener Sustainer;/
and that each of these Persons
is always active.
~ I also believe/
this Supreme Being
has granted each human a free will--
the freedom to/ consider and choose/
at each moment: Heaven, Purgatory,
Hell; and that (for the most part)
each of us knows/ which state of
spirituality/ is being chosen.
~ I do not believe/ we *humans
are (for the most part, or most of the time,
because of some illness or other defect)
automatons.
* [Shortly before 4pm as I was about
to type the asterisked word above,
there was a knock on the door, and
a request I decided not to fulfill,
giving a reason which was definitely
true/ but wasn't--which I didn't even
think of--the primary reason impeding
me at that time.  (I am purposely not
revealing--and may not ever--certain
salient aspects of that incident.)  I
will say it may have been a test I
failed, but whether or not, it absolutely
was a dilemma event.  I am still in a
quandary over it.]  It is now 8:50pm dc est.

2006-02-06  Monday  10:40am dc est
-
All my life I have made errors, have chosen poorly, have made mistakes,
  if for no reason/ other than that: my mind's not right.  And why?
That I have yet/ to/ understand.
  Perhaps is totally in my genes for me to be/ as I am.
  Perhaps a certain hurt to my head (or/ to my spirit) is the prime reason.
  Perhaps my babyhood impetigo--.  Perhaps perhaps--.
  .
  Often (in part) it was ignorance;
  often again (also in part) the angers inside me were the catalysts.
So, yes, some of my actions were unintentional; some not.

*

7:44pm dc est ~ Now begin/ my long-thought-about/
hermit hibernations.
Oh, I know one could say I have ever been/ often and often/
sleeping so.  Certainly, solitudes and silences and dreams-in-dreams
are/ an imaginer's, a thinker's, without-which-naught/
sacred/ I-b-n-a-r Ring Caverns.  Still, now begin/ my
hermit vibrations.
10:32pm dc est
*
10:41pm dc est
*

2006-02-07  Tuesday  evening
-
About Love:
~
Are you (meaning: Am I) able to
fully/ love another?
  Probably not.
Are you (meaning: Am I) able to
fully/ love yourself?
  No.
Are you (meaning: Am I) able to
fully/ love the/ God you say
you believe in?
  Fully enough, I "think",
with the graces from Him
I would need/ to be able to
die/ for that belief.

*

About Being Born Again:
~
When (while I was a baby)
I/ was Baptized,
I/ was
  born again.
When (while I was a sub-teen or early-teen)
I/ was Confirmed,
I/ was
  born again/ a second time.
When (when I was 21, and was walking/
in a closed cloister/ just outside of where/
Mass was being celebrated/ in a Jesuit Seminary
in Minnesota; and Fr. Purcell came up to me,
and asked: Whither/ goest thou?: and I told him:
This day/ [It was a Pentecost Sunday.] I am leaving.:
and he bid me kneel, and gave me his blessing.  I--
being as I was, and as I am--took it as a direct
sign from the Holy Spirit Himself/ that another
mission [one which did not include/ being a
Jesuit] awaited me, and that I was/ at that moment/ being
  born again/ a third time.

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And what did I do, once back in the/ unordered?
And what have I done?  I did and have done
all  manner of things.  I have not been, and
am not yet, and may not ever be/ a holy man, no matter my
  hermit/ intonations.







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Brian A. J. Salchert    2008-07-14    ekua23

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