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pgoeltz · 9 months

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An Elegy for Jerry

by Robert Hunter

Jerry, my friend,

you've done it again,

even in your silence

the familiar pressure

comes to bear, demanding

I pull words from the air

with only this morning

and part of the afternoon

to compose an ode worthy

of one so particular

about every turn of phrase,

demanding it hit home

in a thousand ways

before making it his own,

and this I can't do alone.

Now that the singer is gone,

where shall I go for the song?

Without your melody and taste

to lend an attitude of grace

a lyric is an orphan thing,

a hive with neither honey's taste

nor power to truly sting.

What choice have I but to dare and

call your muse who thought to rest

out of the thin blue air

that out of the field of shared time,

a line or two might chance to shine --

As ever when we called,

in hope if not in words,

the muse descends.

How should she desert us now?

Scars of battle on her brow,

bedraggled feathers on her wings,

and yet she sings, she sings!

May she bear thee to thy rest,

the ancient bower of flowers

beyond the solitude of days,

the tyranny of hours--

the wreath of shining laurel lie

upon your shaggy head

bestowing power to play the lyre

to legions of the dead

If some part of that music

is heard in deepest dream,

or on some breeze of Summer

a snatch of golden theme,

we'll know you live inside us

with love that never parts

our good old Jack O'Diamonds

become the King of Hearts.

I feel your silent laughter

at sentiments so bold

that dare to step across the line

to tell what must be told,

so I'll just say I love you,

which I never said before

and let it go at that old friend

the rest you may ignore.

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skywasyellowsunwasblue · 3 months

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#rip #mojo nixon #frank zapp #frank zappa #grateful dead #jam bands #jerry garcia #misictherpy #original photographers #street photography #techno #pho #SJSU #scvwd #Youtube

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pgoeltzcookiman · 3 days

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@skywasyellowsunwasblue @valleywater

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jmwhite5 · 7 years

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Plea to stop using the Anderson Reservoir until seismic retrofit

This is an open Memo to Naglee Park List, Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) Representative Barbara Keegan (district 2), Board of Directors of SCVWD, San Jose Mayor Liccardo, Council-member for District 3 Raul Perez:

Today, I am making a plea to stop using the Anderson Reservoir until the planned seismic retrofit is completed.

I'll explain below why.

1) Stop the Coyote Creek flooding from happening

There's been talk about the creek being overgrown with vegetation and full of debris and not allowing enough flow, etc... That is all true, but the root cause of why the creek flow is even a concern in the first place is because of the undersized Anderson Reservoir outlet. Let's look at the data:

It took about a week for the Anderson reservoir to stop overflowing since the flood.

The Coyote Creek level at William St. Bridge has been below the historical average for the month of February for the last 6 days. The Edenvale gauge has been below average for about 4 days.

This means:

a) The reservoir level is not coming down fast enough (shown in first graph) given that b) the coyote creek could handle much higher flow right now (shown in second graph) and allow the reservoir to drain faster. Think about it as a huge tub full of water with a puny drain the size of a penny.

2) Eliminate the risk of people dying in the event of a dam failure due to an earthquake

we got a reminder a few days ago (02/26/17) that we live in earthquake country and that a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the Calaveras fault within a mile of the damn would cause the alluvium soil to liquefy under the damn and the dam could drop about 25' sending a wall of water flooding Morgan Hill and eventually San Jose. To mitigate this risk, the reservoir is not supposed to be fuller than 68%, but because of the undersized outlet, the water district doesn't have the right tools to manage the water level.

The Anderson reservoir was originally designed with an insufficient outlet that would not allow proper reservoir level management. That means we see these periodic "100-year flood" events happen every 20 years now. But since 2009, we now know about the seismic concern and the unimaginable tragedy that would ensue if that happened. From my perspective, based on everything we know now, the water district needs to make the right call and stop using the Anderson Reservoir now until it gets retrofitted. The retrofit schedule keeps slipping, but in the meantime, it's immoral to expose so many people to a catastrophic failure due to an event that is squarely in the realm of possibilities.

#2017CoyoteCreekFlood SanJose SCVWD

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pgoeltz · 1 year

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Moo @cows-are-god @cowgirlmilkers

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pgoeltz · 8 months

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Art flowers cop shop

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pgoeltz · 2 months

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NASA Ames flight sim. Carpool buddy. 84/5

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pgoeltz · 2 months

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Nuclear clock 45 seconds

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pgoeltz · 8 months

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I stumbled on this book in 1975.

Nine years prior, Alton Kelley literally lifted (pocket knife) the lithograph from a copy in the SF Public Library, rare book collection. Kelley and Stanley (Mouse) Miller used it in the famous Avalon Ballroom concert poster.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/grateful-dead-original-art-logo-1316160/amp/

Lots of great quatrains about life and death, and many great illustrations.

Great condition. Published nearly 90 years ago.

Make an offer.