SHEARWATER....1979 Cape Dory 30 Ketch.

	Photo by Randy Ruby Noel Diotte  -  310 376-7057 or covemedia@yahoo.com "Living On The Hook" The sailing Blog by Noel Diotte. "Songs, Writing & Evil" February 26, 2006. http://coverunner.tripod.com/Shearwater/  "America...From Freedom to Fascism" NEW! See the 15 minute preview. NEW! Another 36 minute interview with Aaron Russo. Consious Media Network. http://givemeliberty.org Ghost   I walked slowly into the living room the way I would imagine that a ghost walks. This same living room my grandfather walked into in the winter of 1928. The windows were sheets of ice that winter, and in the streets in town, hoof prints froze in place like a black, and white photograph.   His face is up on the mantle in an oval frame, with those black eyes staring out into this era like the coal he use to shovel down in the basement. He was a man's man, a chip out of granite, squared chin, and a charm with the ladies, until my grandmother's charm tamed him into a malleable horse that snorted over the newspaper at the kitchen table.   Grandfather loved to fish, and as a child of nine, I loved the way he untangled my fishing line, a bundle of nylon knots, smoking a pensive pipe, the flat lake lapping at the edge of nowhere in time, the clear nylon between his fingers, and I thought I would look up, and see him against a gray sky forever, tenderly untying my snag.   When she died, he refused to go fishing. He refused to read the newspaper, refused to eat or even drink coffee. I would drive over, and sit with him for hours, saying nothing. Everything needed to be said was said by the way he held her favorite scarf in his lap, the one she wore when they walked the shores by the lake.   I wanted to reach over an untie my grandfathers grief the way he untied my bundle of knots. I wanted the clear nylon to unravel mysteriously in my hands the same way it unraveled in his, but I could not take the pain out of his eyes. Now that he is gone, there is no one to take the pain out of my eyes nor unravel the mysteries shipwrecks all around me in this living room in winter with all his things in place exactly the way he left them.   (c) 2004 by Bruce Owens  Sunrise on Avalon, Catalina Island Dolphins cruising on my way to Avalon. (Google video.Diotte) Amy Goodman - Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Amy Goodman http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl Real Player. On Video or audio. View the entire show. Dialup, Broadband and Downloads.   The Nullsoft Winamp www.nullsoft.com  is free on the Winamp. There are many video streams. Search on the ShoutcastTV listings.   Informationclearinghouse.info http://informationclearinghouse.info   FreedomTV.net http://www.Freedom-tv.net  Get the stream from the ShoutcastTV listings on the Winanp player for all of the above links.   VideoNet Daily (Associate Press) http://worldnetdaily.com/video Fast streams & non-commercial clips. News, Film, Science.   Viewers Beware! Views expressed are those of the various authors and do not necessarily reflect my own views. It is up to you, the thinking reader, to form your own opinion as to the validity of these expressed views.  Bruce Owens Poetry from Shearwater on Santa Barbara Island Audio: Ghost Audio: Ode To Robinson Jeffers Audio: Eddies in the Rush Audio: Democratic Vision Audio: Poem ..... Remake the World Give Me the Poem That Can Remake the World (more) T-Shirts, Sweatshirts & Mugs!   "I Wish I Was Sailing Again!" Coverunner Radio MUGS $11.99. T-SHIRTS $16.99. SWEATSHIRTS $26.99.