personal/social/political philosophy & opinion–sometimes in poetry
It’s in the idea that sex is a male’s biological and social right. It’s in the idea you know what is right for females, what women want, what will get them to want get together with you. So you try to dress up in that garb: the Nice Guy. And women seem to disdain that, …
Continue reading “Involuntary Celibates… thinking about where it goes wrong.”
I was reading some news from the UK today and it struck me how lucky that nation is to be so enriched with citizens bringing ideas and culture from so many parts of the world. It’s how the world grows, how it’s supposed to grow. I know there are many who deplore the changes to …
It’s one of the things that Americans abroad are most recognized by and very often criticized for: striking up conversation with total strangers! Yes, we do that. We do it abroad not realizing that what we do at home is, in fact, not done in many other societies in the world. Americans consider it a …
My son-in-law, an Englishman by birth, has held a green card for several years. This week he took the test and the oath and now he is an American. This is a strange time for Americans, as the dominating force at the top is the most anti-American we have ever had to contend with. Even …
It was 24 years after the major eruption of 1980, and the mountain had been restless. My son Charles who was 19 now and I decided to drive down from Olympia WA and sit vigil for a while just in case something dramatic was about to happen. I took notes. 6PM Oct 3, 2004 —We’ve …
We’re approaching the 45th anniversary of the May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State in the US. I was there that day. I lived in Olympia, about 60 miles from the volcano. For months we’d been hearing news of the rumbling earth, increasing intimations that St Helens was restless. At the …
Here we are, living on this fairly special planet; as Terry Pratchett described it and us, “…where the falling angel meets the rising ape.” That’s us, indeed: a spiritual entity living in a body evolved over time from ape ancestors. Spirit vibrates at a high frequency while the body vibrates at quite a slower frequency, and …
The sun is shining, the temperature is over 60F and I’m off Facebook. This is the day that’s been set aside by a few million Americans, perhaps, to pull back our credit cards and our wallets and withhold our coin from the profit-driven commercial segment of America. One day, 24 hours… to deliver the message …
January 2, 2005[January 15 2025] These are two things that appear quite differently to Body and Spirit. An eastern teacher taught one day, ‘Death is an Illusion.’ The next day, he taught, ‘Death is Real.’ His students tried to pin him down: ‘Today you tell us Death is Real, yesterday you told us it is …
Dec 31, 2004[2025 edits] A model of human-being: I don’t have a soul: I am a soul; I have a body. A simple reframe and all at once, many things that didn’t quite fit, fall into place. Body and soul each has its own protocols: its own needs and problems, and its own solutions, too. When we try …
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