sometimes harmony

in all her math and beauty

needs a noisy twin

square tracts of farm land

and not a single mountain

far as the eye sees

sprawling suburbia

erupting from the monster

stalking the coast line

The stars don't need trained professionals to read them. Fate has been moving since before humans appeared in this world and it will work its wonders after we've gone. That's why we like to invite new people to our humble blog to read the weekly horoscopes from a fresh perspective.

We could only convince Miss Natalie Jericho of the Little Blossoms Preschool to read the horoscopes for us this week after we proved we could recite our ABC's and could tell her three reasons why it's a good thing to share with our friends. For the record: 1. It makes us feel good, 2. It encourages our friends to share with us, and 3. No economy, from the smallest local exchange to the largest international trade agreement, could function properly without a baseline of trust established by a willingness to share. Here's Miss Jericho's take on this week's charts.

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Lenore Najinsky runs the Blue View Hotel in Santa Monica, California, PCAU. In addition to providing our entire crew with rooms and a complementary breakfast, Lenore sat down with us to talk about her family's long history in the region.

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just because they're fake

doesn't mean the instruments

won't give you blisters

shoes in plastic bins

metal detectors and lines

hurry up and wait

dad had his LP's

sis had her stacks of CD's

I've more in my palm

The stars don't need trained professionals to read them. Fate has been moving since before humans appeared in this world and it will work its wonders after we've gone. That's why we like to invite new people to our humble blog to read the weekly horoscopes from a fresh perspective.

Perhaps it was some sort of bizarre disturbance in the fabric of reality or maybe the rock history books need to be updated. The only thing we know for sure is that we in the Zen Ramblings Zodiac Squad were driving along in our company van when we were t-boned by an electric blue convertible being driven by none other than three of the personae adopted by chameleonic pop singer David Bowie. Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke and Jareth the Goblin King were so contrite about the accident that they insisted on helping us read this week's horoscopes. Here's what they had to say, or in some cases sing.

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When Edward, our road manager, told me we would actually be interviewing Chief Representative Harriet Feinman of the Pacific Civic Administrative Union (Pacific Union for short), I thought he was joking. We've attempted to spend time with the heads of state in every country we've visited but this is the first time our inquiry was actually acknowledged, let alone accepted. Though the PCAU is a rather unique case, I suppose. The country is made up of three distinct regions- The central segment still called California (though a significant portion of the former state in the north is not a part of this district), the southeastern Nevada region made up of remnants of the former states of Nevada and Arizona, and lastly the narrow Cascade region composed of the Seattle/Portland/San Francisco corridor. To refer to these regions as autonomous would be to gloss over the role autonomy plays throughout the nation. Laws and regulations vary not just city to city, but neighborhood to neighborhood. Only the Laws of Seal, those written and approved by the federal government, are even enforced by police. Each region has its own legislative council and a Chief Representative, a sort of local president. CR Feinman hails from Cascade.

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