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I was thinking about conspiracies, propaganda, and who or what would be engaging in them. Conspiracy theory lovers often mention the Illuminati and the New World Order, but both are very much in the Classical Liberal tradition and wouldn’t deliberately lie. The Bilderberg Conference is cited as a planning forum for various nefarious schemes, but the actual facts belie that. The Rothschild family is mentioned, but they only go for the money, and harming potential customers is bad for business. Then ...

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRFQ8KWeFwo[/url]

Listening to this is just pure pleasure/bliss for me.

It's from his 15th album, so he seems a bit more matured, even though he was brilliant from start to finish.

Oh... so! today I climbed a tree and it was really, incredibly beautiful; chirping crickets (I think they were!) and birds, it was completely perfect.
It made me almost want to write a poem, which I haven't yet; but I was just reading ...

Is reading poetry instead of doing homework ( due on Sunday) of process control analysis considered failing in studying?

Anyway, here's the poem...

The Clod and the Pebble
by William Blake (1757-1827)

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.

So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet; ...

The road where we meet
is a gravelly dirt path
a simple, quiet lane;
traveled and transitory.
Flooded in sunlight,
barefoot it seems
that all roads lead here.
Stories can all be heard,
quietly wrapped
in sunbathed pebbles
and petals, and insects, too.
"The ends of the earth"
are open to you;
a shimmering vision,
it all becomes true.

I Many Times Thought

I many times thought peace had come
When peace was far away,
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
When far at sea they stay.

And struggle slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
That many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.

- Emily Dickinson