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If you are in the US and have not yet found today’s “No Kings” rally near you, here is the site that shows them all.

Please boost this so everyone can show up.

https://www.nokings.org

Those also surf who only stand and wade.

If you *can* #NoKings tomorrow, please do. If you *can't*, know that you are loved, and know that your support is invaluable.

Don't play guilt or shame, please.

Play love, play joy, play kindness, play peace, play *support*.

Went out again for a smoke, I think they're already gone. Not even 2 am. I still have beer, myself. :)

Anyway, never mind. Nothing like that's going on tonight. If I hadn't gone out to smoke, I wouldn't have even known they were down there. And the 5 years or so in which we wrestled with the real problem are well past. This is just some younger people having a nice Friday night gathering on the land.

But I've seen the "justice system" in action, and there was no way in hell I was going to introduce a young person to it on my watch.

And they all thought I was angry with *them*!

I was not. I was sympathetic to all four parties. Annoyed, yes, but sympathetic just the same.

Handling *healthy* late-teens is hard. Handling those who are unwell is many times harder.

But the parents were angry cuz I reported to the community each incident, and they could not take my word for what I saw when their own children denied it. The elders were angry at me cuz I didn't always get the kids to settle down, plus the couple of reactionaries are just dicks. The free-to-be-you-and-me crowd were angry at me cuz I was seeking to control what should not be controlled. And the kids were angry at me cuz I was telling them to settle the fuck down or else get the cops called.

I don't regret it. Far from it. But I sure didn't like it.

The thought of this troubled young violence-prone man-child swinging on a rural deputy *terrified* me.

I was determined there would be no police called on these young'uns. Determined I'd calm them down, calm the more reactionary elders down, chill the situation out.

Man, I've had some shitty jobs in my life, but that was one shitty year. I was caught in a non-stop round-robin of getting trashed by one or more of the four parties.

We had many more young'uns here, among them a young man with a serious anger-management problem, one I suspect he still has.

And the crews were larger, and a good deal louder.

And there were four groups here, 1) the youths, 2) their parents, 3) crabby elders, and as always, 4) people who minded their own business.

And my role was, when an elder was upset, I had to go down there and quell the disturbance, in lieu of a couple of the elders who believe policemen are our friends.

Out on the deck having a cigarette, and I hear there's a small crew down at the swimming hole hanging out.

The swimming hole is a little more than 100m from house, straight down a 30 degree incline, and it's a cool clear night, and even tho my hearing is slowly failing, I can hear them quite clearly.

It's, mind you, not a problem. They're being pretty quiet, and it's Friday night, and who gives a shit.

But it reminds me of a time about 6 or so years ago.

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It's a longshot, but hey does anyone know this lost dog in downtown Springfield, Oregon?

A woman just found him and brought him to our door to ask if he's ours. I grabbed my phone to call animal control and she mosied on home, so now we're waiting for an animal control person to come pick him up.

I made a Reddit post about him in the Eugene subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eugene/comments/1o7no3e/lost_dog_in_downtown_springfield/

#SpringfieldOregon #EugeneOregon #lost_dog_street_band