Sonomabuzz

Author: Gerry

  • What Networking means

    I had an exchange with the author concerning a post he did, 4 Rules of Networking

    I posted it here because it says so much about how community collaboration is NOT a new thing. We just have new ways of achieving collaboration.

    From me to James: “I hope it’s okay that I copy this and post it on my blog. With credit of course.

    I have been championing this aspect of the value of networks within the Human Services sphere where I serve. You have stated it eloquently.

    I hope we all recognize though that the language of social networking we are now developing has always been a reality in local dynamics. If I think of government and community collaboration, non-profit boards, United Way, the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber led “Leadership” programs, and a wide variety of activity, I recognize that this has all been going on forever. See and LSR Alumni Association

    James Schmeling replied: “Excellent post, shared with my online networks. It articulated how we focus on expanding our work and benefiting the work of others through new connections and collaborations.

    There’s something not quite captured by these which includes willingness to expend effort for repeated efforts at connecting with people who aren’t quite ready to learn, but where the network effect would be worth the effort. Sometimes people aren’t ready to learn something or see how it applies, and it may take three or four introductions, or follow-ups, until a light goes on.

    I recently met with someone four times before I could connect with what they wanted to do. We knew we wanted to work together, but it took some time to understand the best points of connection. ”

    So… “What Networking Means” is this, among other things… I appreciate this sense of repeatedly bringing this to the attention of people. I have been doing this for some time and plan to continue championing this idea until we have some positive results.

    February 27, 2010

  • We encounter things

    Turkeys gobbling
    While crows are cawing nearby
    Morning at my house.
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    We encounter things
    So strange yet still so common
    Children’s services
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    Haiku for you.
    petaluma river

    Sky in the water
    Clouds turn blue on a river
    like boats lingering.
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    I love the shadows
    They reach across my life and
    warm my weary bones

    Just Any Old Creosote
    Photo of creosote bush in Cathedral City, California by Orin Zebest

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/27/10

    Three shades of color
    Across an open landscape
    Depicting life’s blend

    Sun, Clouds and Creatures
    Photo taken in South Africa by Lynae Straw

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/07/10

    Idling bus riders
    Their time means less than schedules
    Here next to the road
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    Ecological
    Translates to inconvenience
    For the bus rider
    020510 bus stop
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/01/10

    I’m not prolific
    Haiku just happens because
    I have a notebook
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/10/10

  • Superbowl – a little bit of a lot

    My wife told me how little time the football is actually in play (based on what she heard on KZST). I timed it today and she was absolutely correct

    Superbowl The game lasted 3 hours and 14 minutes. The time the ball was actually in play was 13.43 minutes

    February 7,2010 New Orleans Saints = 31 Baltimore Colts = 17

    Start time 3:31:00 PM Stop time 6:45:00 PM

    Duration 194 minutes or 3 hours and 14 minutes
    Number of plays 140
    1.39 minutes per play

    Average time the ball was in play was an average 5.80 seconds per play
    Minutes actually played 13.43
    Number of plays counted = 115
    Number of plays estimated total = 140

  • Courts in Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Counties – construction

    I have a very high opinion of the people who lead the California Courts, starting with Hon. Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court and William C. Vickrey, the Administrative Director of the Courts. I was privileged from 2000 through 2005 to be a Court staff member and saw from the inside many thoughtful and conscientious public servants.

    The North Bay has become aware of the Court construction process on 02/06/2010 by new announcements. I pulled together a few links as reference.

    I would encourage anyone who would like, to contact the leaders of the local court and the state office to respectfully share a perspective. I believe that it will be graciously received and sincerely considered. See these websites for information.

    Lake: Judge Richard C. Martin is the Presiding Judge Court Executive Officer:Mary E. Smith

    Mendocino: Judge Cindee Mayfield is the Presiding Judge for calendar year 2009. The Court Executive Officer is Benjamin Stough.

    Sonoma: Judge Gary Nadler is the Presiding Judge Executive Officer: José Octavio Guillén

    The California Superior Court has developed a useful and informative process for moving forward. Their current plans are here. The facilities component can be found on page 48 of “The Operational Plan for California’s Judicial Branch, 2008–2011.” The Office of Court Construction and Management can be found here.

    Here is the process that Sonoma, Mendocino & Lake Counties are going through.

    I have this picture on my office wall.

  • Haiku speed writing journey

    Winter overcast

    Walking with the dog briskly

    Exploring a place

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/27/09

    Winter in the woods

    Birds dancing on bare branches

    The last leaves falling

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>  12/28/09

    My morning sunshine

    Showing brightly in her eyes

    This woman I love

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/05/10

    In the winter sky

    Beyond frigid wisps of clouds

    Orion passes

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/09/10

    Went on a sudden

    Haiku speed writing journey

    On a homebound bus

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    Geese calling loudly

    Under a gray gloomy sky

    Piercing the quiet

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Warm fingers wiggle

    Coziest bicycle gloves

    Grasp the writer’s pen

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    Twittering haiku

    Making one hundred forty

    Be five seven five

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Guess what I started

    Riding on the bus today

    Motion poetry

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Santa Rosa light

    Through trees and vineyards shining

    Even in the rain

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    Light through distant clouds

    Reminders of the day’s end

    World spins round again

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    How fast can he write

    Entertain or occupy

    Amuse someone now

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

    Glowing orbs passing

    People driving sending smoke

    Illuminated

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/11/10

  • Timing life’s cadence

    How in the middle
    Of nowhere uncertainty
    Resolves in silence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/25/07

    Learning to listen
    To the rhythm of breathing
    Timing life’s cadence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    Guidance comes when it
    Is given through listening
    To your direction
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    The eyes cannot see
    What the soul reveals each time
    Breathe flows in and out
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/07

    I must be like you
    Listen to this whisper always
    A sound of thunder
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/07

    He too is some stream
    Thought in early trickle if
    Rain is like water
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    Honor the present
    completely accepting now
    no then or future
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    every day we find
    Spontaneous confusion.
    is there any other kind?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/26/08
    12:50 p.m. based on page 26 of a General Theory of Love

    Play Saying one thing
    is physical poetry
    meaning another

    1:10 p.m.
    we earn our keep as
    trusty assistants ever
    watchful here and now.

    1:20 p.m.
    I’m gonna kiss it
    and make it better for you
    that’s what I should do

    1:34 page 30 of a General Theory of Love

    abstraction invents
    possibility of a
    mental future

    3:53 page 37 of a General Theory of Love
    feeling deeply is
    synonymous with being
    alive for humans

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/30/08

    night thoughts drift past dreams
    or was it more likely that
    dreams drift past night thoughts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/21/08

  • Haiku about people and such

    Life is imperfect
    People do what they think right
    Live patience calmly
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/13/04

    Those ones who observe
    Watching justice slide away
    Undone by process
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/11/04

    Memories come unbidden
    To the victims of Katrina and Bagdad
    Memories come unbidden

    NOT a HAIKU
    To the displaced
    the failures of the leaders is remembered
    Regretfully, sporadically
    Recovery wrestles with regret
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/29/06 (copied)

    Can you explain it,
    Intelligence, by the way
    Thoughts show on the face?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/07

    I learn things really
    fast because days grow shorter
    patience reflected
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/25/08

    Neither here nor there
    Stones in time bend to nature
    Souls are gone from stones.

    Jay Cross’ graveyard photo on Flickr Sunday
    CIMG0270.JPG
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/03/08

    Aldous Huxley
    optimistic concurrence
    we want avoidance
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/06/08

    A freeway canyon
    Over Santa Rosa creek
    Is what we have now
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Traffic sputtering
    Around the old courthouse square
    Drive away instead
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Bicycles blazing
    Catch the imagination
    Of Santa Rosa
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Throughout my whole life
    I have made it a habit
    To give away things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/20/08

    The budget process
    A mock might equal amuck
    Keep slogging anyway

    Today’s Haiku – inspired by Nick Honey’s budget description @ all staff meeting

    Mach six is money
    Running really fast in the
    Wrong direction, oy.
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    Things are what they are
    So pay close attention to
    Complicated things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/27/08

    Teenager secret
    Affirmative denial
    Just keep them guessing
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    A haiku for her.

    attitude and joy,
    such a great combination
    in a little girl.
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    Keep your eyes open
    Keep your mouth shut, all the time
    Keep your hands moving

    Attributed to Cindy Wolf
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/12/08

    Reflected image
    Of love’s hidden light in dreams
    Revealed in you
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/15/08

    She is lost in thought
    The light of the future glows
    In her potential

    Haiku for you
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/allenowen/2547325334/
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/02/08

    The pervasiveness
    of fear – it’s like poison on
    anyone’s weary brain
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    Q-tips kleenex bags
    plenty of paper products
    on a shopping list

    (don’t really need this – it was an old shopping list on the back of this morning’s haiku)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    Smiles flashing boldly
    Moments of pure joy in life
    Like a mockingbird
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/15/08

    Transfer behind a
    Temporary intention
    Lack of commitment
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/27/08

    Life and light
    More and less
    Talents and gifts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/24/08

    Leadership level
    Categories spelled out
    Do they capture soul?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Too tired to talk
    Life just keeps plugging along
    Now what will I do?
    (by Anne)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Get your cute ass home
    Consider evening light and
    those ones who love you

    or

    Tell all those who grouse
    to be quiet like a mouse
    then close office door
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Barak Obama
    Hope embodied in a man
    A new president
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    Pictures of a room
    Another classroom landscape
    Student space to learn
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Deliberate haste
    Is moving quickly slowly
    Barak Obama
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Our Acquisitions
    Are not Transformational
    Relationships are
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/24/09

    the blessed get to
    pay for the mistakes of the
    well off and the poor
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/08/09

    Friends in Sonoma
    Found a field of wine and grass
    Caballos blancos

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/althewop/3526195573/in/pool-33701253@N00/?addedcomment=1#comment72157618803046926
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/25/09

    I can suffer fools
    By listening carefully
    To their drip drip drip
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffer fools suffer
    You were born to it because
    You are so stupid
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffering all fools
    Is a way to leadership
    At times all are fools
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

  • haiku does not wait

    haiku does not wait
    for feeble distracted mind
    a Palm remembers
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    Just imagining
    an uncopyrightable
    monosyllable
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/18/08

    Ask about our roof
    My house still there up above
    Creaks but later here
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/10/08

    I can’t help myself
    It just comes naturally
    Seeing things this way
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    Five five five five five
    Seven seven seventy
    Fifty five fifty
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    Broken derailer
    It is a rough ride sometimes
    Pedaling nowhere
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/23/08

    It’s not possible
    To be wrong about haiku
    Except for the length
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/07/08

    Toes at attention
    Eyebrows are slightly furrowed
    Haiku on the way
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    Weta bobosee
    Seba tewabo sese
    Bowe webo se
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/22/08

    Pungent smell of smoke
    Lingering of lightening
    Expressed as fire
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/15/08

    A moment of joy
    Every day it happens too
    With everything else.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/08
    Pickles pickles pick
    salty spicy I love it
    plenty of pickles

    Pickles all day long
    lunch dinner even breakfast
    Oh I love her so

    [from the bus ride]
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    I give away things
    most valuable to me
    Altruism is good
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/20/08

    dark shadow and light
    green clarity goes to blue
    lack of clarity

    leaf

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/04/09

    Angels in our heart
    Stayed in the foggy ground
    Memories hold true
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/28/09

  • Haiku with a theme of children

    I learn things really
    Fast because days grow shorter
    Was a child’s wisdom
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    Child you could know life
    With only some happy thought
    Wander to your dream
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    Where has childhood gone
    ah, it grew up too and fled
    Simple pleasures gone
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/04/08

    Nowhere is now here
    a non space is now a place
    For children to be.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/19/08

  • Haiku from Nature

    Orion running
    Perpetually as light
    In the morning sky

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    Rain drops from the sky
    Air refreshed by water
    Cleansing inhaling

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>10/15/07

    Dandelion blossom
    We want green spring garden plant
    Flower leaf dawning

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Though rust falls in the
    Autumn summer will journey
    Through morning bloom

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Happy people dream
    Shiver beneath winter moon
    Snow soon freezes ice

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>12/25/07

    Tulip stuck in time
    Its potential blossom gone
    Unseen forever

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/04/08

    Water on a shore
    Ice in solid formula
    Amorphously cold

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/14/08

    A hovering kite
    Attentive to the motion
    Field mouse lingering

    [east of Winters, California]

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    Orion arise
    Beloved in the night skies
    Running running on

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/16/08

    Little lonely
    Thought of brilliant night sky
    Alone in star light

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/16/08

    Autumn grasses yellow
    Wander beneath rusted cloud
    Rising evening moon

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/19/08

    Blue sky the trees say
    The wind resting is breathing
    God less manifest

    The breathe of God
    Flows through creation as wind
    Flowing over all

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>01/30/08 9:00 a.m.

    Make me smile before
    The bloom of summer morning
    Full from sun journey

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/10/08

    An angel of stone
    Sits praying in the night rain
    Blessings on flowers

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/21/08

    Standing by a creek
    Sound blends with nighttime musing
    Cares flow to the sea

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>02/21/08

    Baby ducks snoring
    Under a bridge in the fog
    Tiny signs of spring

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>03/19/08

    A simple beauty
    Egrets flying together
    beautiful sky now

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>03/25/08

    The young tree sprouting
    Blue skies in Santa Rosa
    California

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/05/08

    The Blossoms turning
    Spring bees buzz in Sonoma
    California

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/05/08

    Swollen blossoms wait
    Spring is in the air today
    White flowers burst soon

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>04/07/08

    Happy Spring flowers
    Green with pink yellow blossom
    Fresh colors of life

    IMG_0513.JPG

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/03/08

    Summer blazing in
    Heat searing on the faint wind
    While spring’s blossoms wilt

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/15/08

    Smooth paddles of light
    Cause ripples in time and space
    Shadows linger on

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>5/22/08

    Cicada in the
    Palo Verde mimicking
    Arid summer heat
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>06/23/08
    Pungent smell of smoke
    lingering from lightening
    drift of summer fire

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 6/23/08

    Can’t hear that teardrop
    For all we know it’s just a
    Ripple on a stream.

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/14/08

    Poppies drying out
    Fields of parched brown grasses
    Season of summer

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>7/15/08

    A bird on the fence
    Quickly scanning a yellow
    Flower then moves on

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/21/08

    A caterpillar
    Amongst the green tomatoes
    Takes an early share

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>07/21/08

    Moths migrating in
    The early morning sunlight
    Transient nature

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>   7/26/08

    The fog enshrouds the light
    Mists envelope days passing
    Time moves over love

    All I get from you
    A place for me in your heart
    Where I want to be

    Time moves over love
    Mists of our time in this light
    This morning’s true gift

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>10/08/08

    Sheep sleeping in fog
    Fields of mist veil their slumber
    What things do they count?

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/04/08

    Crisp fall air blowing
    Light shining in lovely trees
    It is great alive

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/11/08

    As the sun it shone
    Upon the vines grapes all gone
    Shadows left alone

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>11/21/08

    Saline Sea shines blue
    under the desert’s hot sun
    after man’s mistake

    Toxic Acidic Beautiy

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/12/08

    Young hawks shrill calling
    Brighten a sunny spring day
    Like children who smile

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 5/8/09

    Pigeon flying by
    There is a dream like quality
    Wake me in the air.

    Pigeons Fly Low

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>05/17/09

    The wind through the pines
    And the cottonwood snow
    Warmth of Tahoe sun.

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><>  07/05/09