In the chaosconstructed by human connivance,greed, and blinkered self-deception, I look to the treesrising, indifferentto human madness,slow-reaching skyward,slow-flowing sap to nourisheach twig and leafand tiny single cell… I look to the seasrolling on and on,uncaring of Man’s designs,against the sands, the cliffs,or flinging wildlypartnering with rocky shoresto dance, force meeting gravity,to graze the air and …
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To Eat or Not To Eat
Watching nature documentaries, another dichotomy of living in this world comes to mind: Predatory/Prey. There is very little life on Earth that does not have to kill to eat. Speaking with scientific dispassion, every organism has to acquire and transform other life forms to nutrients in order to live, to thrive, to perpetuate its own …
Juneteenth: An American Celebration
I hear the outward celebrations of Juneteenth are being scaled down due to expectations of backlash from bigots, basically. In the current national atmosphere, it’s understandable, and in some degree wise. Like not setting off fireworks in a dry meadow. But the historic moment is most certainly not canceled, it is not going away: Those …
Involuntary Celibates… thinking about where it goes wrong.
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, …
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For Better Or For Worse
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 …
On Being An American
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 …
The School of Becoming
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 …
Death and Past Lives
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 …
Having and Being
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 …
How The Universe Looks From Here
The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it …
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