today
9 a.m. 15th Annual Plant Sale Bayside Grange
read >10 a.m. 35th Annual Daffodil Show Fortuna River Lodge
read >10 a.m. Peace Begins with ME Eureka Center for Spiritual Living
read >10 a.m. Annual Juggling Festival Humboldt State University
read >10:30 a.m. Learn How to Meditate Humboldt Area Foundation
read >11 a.m. Understanding Islam Arcata Library
read >noon Rainwater Harvest and Reuse Systems Living Earth Landscapes
read >2 p.m. Antigone Matinee College of the Redwoods
read >2 p.m. So Hum Tales Mateel Community Center
read >2 p.m. Open Jazz Jam Morris Graves Museum of Art
read >2 p.m. Irish Tea and Celebrity Cake Auction Fieldbrook Winery
read >2:30 p.m. Open Mic World Cup Cafe
read >6 p.m. Vintage Jazz (jazz) Chapala Cafe
read >6 p.m. Competitive Scrabble See Event Description
read >7 p.m. Open Mic Mosgo's
read >7:30 p.m. Zoe Boekbinder Westhaven Center for the Arts
read >8 p.m. Karaoke at Bear River Casino Bear River Casino
read >8 p.m. Karaoke Blue Lake Casino
read >8 p.m. Cabaret Arkley Center for the Performing Arts
read >9 p.m. Deep Groove Night Jambalaya
read >9 p.m. Piano Ben Six Rivers Brewery
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Letter to Sasquatch
By John J. Brugaletta
You might not readily accept advice
from one of us, the little predators,
but I will offer it in case it helps:
Keep to cover; stay in the shadows;
do not allow your young to greet us
in their naiveté. Not only may you
see them shot, or bound in ignominy,
you'll also share then our infection with
an urge for constant and useless change,
our gift for raising the standard for belief
when a belief is inconvenient for us,
an appetite for gratuitous excitement,
and end, as we have, by worshiping
the powerful as models for ourselves.
No doubt you are already deceitful
in ways that we would think charming,
but there's no need to soil your life
beyond your few modest mistakes.
For my part, I will say I disbelieve
in your existence, perhaps persuading
a few more hunters to stay at home
watching nonsense on television.
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