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Tee Shits or Chickens and Tyrants of Zen
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2009-07-27T03:57:09.302Z
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Did you ever notice yourself surrounded by tee shirts bearing a similar theme? I don't mean shirts from some club or something - at least, not one you could identify - heh! I mean really, that might be a relief, because then you could say <i>O yeah, I get it, they really <b>are</b> all on the same team</i> . . .<br />
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hee-hee!<br />
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eeYeah, that kind ah thing . . . Didja? Ever?<br />
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I bought a book Friday, <i>Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants</i> 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness, by Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. Arnie is a…
Did you ever notice yourself surrounded by tee shirts bearing a similar theme? I don't mean shirts from some club or something - at least, not one you could identify - heh! I mean really, that might be a relief, because then you could say <i>O yeah, I get it, they really <b>are</b> all on the same team</i> . . .<br />
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hee-hee!<br />
<br />
eeYeah, that kind ah thing . . . Didja? Ever?<br />
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I bought a book Friday, <i>Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants</i> 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness, by Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. Arnie is a faculty member at UVM, with over 25 years of <i>clinical psychology, yoga, and meditation</i> experience. His blurb at the back of the book says he was in India in 1985, so hey. He must know about the zen aspects of <i>mindfulness</i>, right? Sure . . . I'll spare you the praises of his <i>peers</i>, suffice it to say I found them <i>interesting . . .</i><br />
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Anywayz . . . So ya, I did, I bought this book Friday, and on Saturday evening I was down on Church Street - it's the local <i>shopping mecca</i>, never mind, you probably don't want to know - and I was, I was surrounded by tee shirts. Of course I was, because it was warm out.<br />
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But I noticed among all of these tee shirts there seemed to be a subtle theme that stood out just a little, because of all of the tee shirts and all of the slogans there seemed to be more of them with one particular theme.<br />
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Peace symbols. Or the statement Visualize Peace. Or some other variation on the theme of Peace. I'm tempted to get sidetracked by the bumper sticker Visualize Whirled Peas, but I didn't see any bumper stickers, so I'll leave that for another time.<br />
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<i>Visualize Whirled Peas</i> I mean <b>Please!</b> Common! Can't we just say what we mean anymore?<br />
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REally.<br />
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Anywayz, after about the <b>one hundreth</b> tee shirt with a peace symbol on it - and no, there was no peace rally going on so get off my case will ya? -<br />
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After just so many of them I had to ask <b>Why?</b> Is al Qaida going to suddenly lay down their guns? How about the Bloods and the Crips? Hmm?<br />
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And guess what happened? All the peacenik tee shirts vanished. All of them. I didn't see another all night.<br />
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Now don't get me wrong, don't misunderstand. I think peace is a fine thing and we could all use a lot more of it. I just don't care for <i>behavioral advertising.</i> HAAA haa! heEEee! No I don't.<br />
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In fact, it really ticks me off.<br />
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So now I'm wondering . . . do you think Arnie had anything to do with that?<br />
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WHEEEeee! Lets Go sHOPping everyBody! Shop till Ya Drop!<br />
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hee-hee! Crazy! That's what it is! Just plain Crazy!<br />
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© D. Winter<br />
July 26, 2009