Everything we perceive is filtered through the grid of our worldview. From the moment our consciousness awakens, our worldview is built, brick-upon-brick through every activity and interaction that we experience. How we receive and manage those experiences is key. Do I take in and reorganize? or Do I take in and reinforce? Am I a […]
Category: Essays
Why I Write
In The Nuptials, Camus wrote of a consciousness reveling in the world, a body delighting in nature, and the individual’s immersion in sheer physicality. Years before, Whitman wrote of the same sensuality, joy, and awareness of our place in this world. These two giants married literary and philosophical thought like few had. I have no […]
Why I Write
I write to bring others peacefulness and joy, to stand them on a prairie hillcrest watching wind ripple ripening wheatfields as far as the eye can see, like an ocean, wave after wave of golden grain, its bronzed hues dancing and playing in the sunlight swaying, first this way, then that, without reason other than […]
Justice & Equality
The patriarchy has forced all women To forget their true nature and mother – The Amazons of Diana who is Tiamat! # Shake off your slumber ladies and prepare for battle! # Too much is known of time and space, To leave the patriarchy in place!
On Faeries & Magic
faery warriors slain, faery queens drained of life cannot save. outlandish though it seem, it was all but a dream. live i must for when it’s done – it’s done. # i will not lie down with brutish stone whispering in ominous tones yet incapable of tearing away the creeping vine that seeks to render […]
On the Past
do not focus on the dead. you cannot fix your relationship with the dead. you cannot change the past, only avoid repeating the same mistakes. the dead are gone; cherish their memory; honor their existence. live w/o regret, paralysis, or binding-resentment. live free. when you fail, get up. shake the dust from yourself & do […]
How I Live
do the next right thing | don’t worry about what others think – Hap if you screw up, do the next right thing. [and you will screw up] you determine what your right thing is … no one else.
On Life
apart from self-expression, this existence is all meaningless. we evolved. there is no grand plan, no hidden purpose or secret. this is it. we get these few moments on the stage, no rehearsal, no second act. that is why I encourage everyone to express their true selves. – Hap
21st Century History
December 28, 2024 Summary of 21st Century history to date: The world has been taken over by butt-hurt billionaires who think they know more than everyone else & willing to pay to rule the world.
Implications
On an evolutionary scale and scheme, an individual life is utterly meaningless – devoid of meaning. No human – not Einstein nor Mandela – matters or has an impact on an evolutionary scale. Humans are magnificent animals. That is all. To seek meaning and purpose, to seek significance beyond living … these efforts create anguish, […]