Category: Essays

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

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, […]

Degrowth and Democracy

Modern democratic elections appeal to the mob through glamour and outrage. They monstrously personify the worst of humanity through an uneven selection processes. From time immemorial leadership has been determined through appeal and trade, be it in goats or grain, salt or shekels. He with the most power and appeal has always ruled. HE has […]