Extolling, and embodying, the virtues of creativity, and creative writing, to save the world. (Or, at least, myself.)
Actual photo taken by me. One of two places of any "significance" I've ever been, unless, of course, you count them all. Yesterday my soul slipped into the sea, It buoyed there a while and cried for you and me. That soulless surface scarred, it dredged the deepest dream, it swelled the strangest sigh... Yesterday … Continue reading On the Truth and Power of “Free-Association”
The bad in ME is the BAD in YOU, SIMPLY, because, it must be. Otherwise, how could I BE? To BE is to be good... But I can, ONLY, be good if I am good, and, therefore, not bad, BUT I AM BAD, and YOU ARE GOOD, therefore, for ME to be good, YOU need … Continue reading “Good vs. Bad”
"Enlightened Witness." A Prayer for EasterEstherPrayerPshawPshawYour prayers.P-Shaw.I’ll give you a prayer.Pshaw.I am your neighbor.I am your friend.I don’t need your prayers.Don’t pray to me.Don’t pray for me.I’m a public,Don’t you see.We don’t need your prayers.Prayers.Pshaw.Pshaw.Pshaw.Now, friends, they’re a different thing.Esther.Friend.Geri.Geraldine.Friend.Easter.Pshaw.Esther,Friend.We’ll rise again,In love with you, my friend.Esther.Geri.Geraldine.Amen.
"Strength to Love." According to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," his final essay in Strength to Love, "I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive." However, according to Alice Miller, psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst, all behavior stems from childhood experience, at least in … Continue reading On “Suffering”
(originally posted June 16, 2024) "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a GIFT. That's why it's called the present."Bil Keane, The Family Circus (possibly) Presents = Presence. To be "present" is to "present" ourselves in every moment of the Present. When we offer presents to one another on each other's birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, … Continue reading Presents. (re-post)
How do you relax? https://youtu.be/0X6DxuhTfxE?feature=shared
How do you relax? https://youtu.be/ddnNAuydfX0?feature=shared
How do you relax? https://youtu.be/7ZltupgG3LE?feature=shared
The Pause, a Space BetweenWhen was it?That you last —.WhenWasIt?WhereWereYou?WhoWereYou?WhoAreYou,Now?WhatAreYou,Now?WhoAreYou?WhatHaveYouBecome?WhatHaveWeBecome?Pause.TakeABreath.ASingle,SolitaryBreath.And,Then,Breathe,Again.BecauseYouDe-ServeIt.Breathe.—.Amen.
In "Why Does E = mc^2?: (And Why Should We Care?)" authors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw describe the meaning and significance of relativity and the speed of light. Simply put, the closer one comes to approaching the speed of light, the slower time seems to move... HOWEVER, traveling at the speed of light is not … Continue reading On “Light Speed”: An Argument for a Proof of the Existence of God
