Posted on 07/12/2006 8:30:09 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
LOL!!!
So cute! Thanks for the memories. ;)
"I appreciate your stopping around."
I wouldn't miss a Dragonflies Lair Anniversary for anything.
In fact I might even sing!
"Okay, or write a poem?? You can do that!"
I'll stop by on Sunday,
and I promise I won't sing,
But instead wait until Monday,
if I can't think of a thing!
See you on Sunday
when the anniversary blooms
have your bellows ready for those
alto tunes...
LOL
WOW!! 29 threads!!
Great job. :-0
Blossoms in Their Time
Like the rare flowers of the century plant
anniversaries come in their time
bound up in gentle rhyme
shared by those who refuse to accept ‘can’t’
Wordsmiths, some young or now old
crafting thoughts and dreams with but words
to share and speak until we perceive the art heard
to dare so open and honest and bold
Each a stone in the flagstone floor of poetry
upon which we build a house of appreciation
placed with quiet hope and somber dedication
before we slip away to see what else may be
Sam!
Thank so much for stopping by! So good to see an old friend and avid supporter of the Lair!
Best wishes on your new adventure.
So lovely are your poems words
so carefully chosen and placed
upon each and every line
as a floor on which to build
a poem, or a hill from which
to gaze in other worlds
and see the path ways strewn
with gems laid down on
velvet hems of robes worn
by princes rare, and poets
with a golden pen.
bentfeather
Inner Playground
In the hidden garden of the passive mind
grow delicate flowers we call dreams
where in we entwine reality and fiction
creating landscapes on an inner canvas
wherein fantasy flies and then to pass
evading all those things creating friction
now playing under silvered moonbeams
surprising us with what we’re apt to find
Nice to see you still going strong.
If my life ever stops getting so hectic maybe I can get back to some of my old pasttimes, like hanging around FR. :-)
LOL, well looking forward to that day with ya!
Starbase:
Re our correspondence about Saul alinsky, I googled a little and found the following. this quote is probably about 50 years old, but doesn't it sound real familiar in the context of contemporary media and leftism?
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Saul D. Alinsky (1909 - 1967) is the father of modern American radicalism. He developed strategies and tactics that convert the enormous emotional energy of grassroots groups into effective anti-government, anti-institutional, and anti-corporate activism. His ideas are widely taught today as a set of model behaviors and actions, and used with an emotional commitment to victory that goes well beyond those who become his targets.
Grassroots pressure on large organizations will grow. Studying Alinsky's rules and developing empathetic counteractive strategies can level the playing field, especially during high-profile public debate and decision making.
Here are eight of Alinsky's 13 Rules for Radicals. They take advantage of the patterns of weakness, arrogance, repeated mistakes, and miscalculations large organizations and their leadership make:
Power is not only what you have, but what the target thinks you have.
Never go outside the expertise of your people. Feeling secure stiffens the backbone.
Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the target. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty.
Make the target live up to its own book of rules. If the rule is that every letter or E-mail gets a reply, send thousands.
Ridicule, especially against organizational leaders, is a potent weapon. There's no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force concessions.
A good tactic is one your people enjoy. They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They'll even suggest better ones.
Keep the pressure on. Never let up. Keep trying new tactics to keep the opposition off balance. As the target masters one approach, hit them with something new.
Pick the target. Target an individual, personalize the attack, polarize and demoralize his/her supporters. Go after people, not institutions. Hurting, harassing, and humiliating individuals, especially leaders, causes more rapid organizational change.
This sampling of Alinsky's rules illustrates why opposition groups enjoy opposing and why corporations and institutions fail to win. Simply put, large organizations are never as committed to victory as their opposition is committed to defeating them. There are few surprises here, just unprepared organizations.
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Knowing how these tactics are formulated helps us recognize them for what they are, when someone uses them.
Nor is there any reason that people of a conservative stripe cannot use them for their ends. Fire with fire.
wo. I just did a google search, and look what I found:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a2c81004877.htm
history repeats itself.
WT
Ps hope this is an appropriate forum to post this. I'm still figuring this site out.
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