Wednesday 6:40 AM eastern Bluesky is unavailable for the second time in a week. Has t-Rump and Musk’s lackeys attacked? Stay tuned as I research.
Category: Essays
Character Interview – David Masters
This interview feels timely these days. It was written in 2009 to help me better understand one of the main characters in my novel – Wireless. In the book, Wireless, David Masters arrives as someone with an unestablished past. What the reader knows is that Masters has started a foundation called the Ultraist Group that […]
American Influence and Stability: Good for “left behind” American workers
[Author’s note: This was originally posted on LinkedIn November 28, 2016 a few weeks after tRump stole the presidency with Putin’s help.] The proposed United States pull out from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] for trade will be the final kick in the teeth to American Vietnam Veterans – those soldiers who bravely served in […]
The Problem of Consciousness
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 […]
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.