

The Soul Way
the difficult way
is often not the sole way… Continue reading The Soul Way

A Sunday Song to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance
Happy 90th birthday, Yoko Ono! Continue reading A Sunday Song to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance

Literary Zen XII
I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. Continue reading Literary Zen XII

‘Tis
‘tis the every day
‘tis the mundane, the banal… Continue reading ‘Tis

Filed my taxes yesterday
And no matter how many times I’ve filed them (I’m old so a lot), and no matter how sophisticated and whizbang the tax software gets, I always get a bad feeling when I’m done, that I haven’t done them correctly. Continue reading Filed my taxes yesterday

A New Look
Well, I guess in this hyperfast doom scrolling timeline of a world we now live in, 2020 as a publishing date is rather old… Continue reading A New Look

Sunday Songs to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance

Alright is not…
All right. #notetoself Continue reading Alright is not…

Rainy Season, AI-Imagined
I’ve always wanted to write and illustrate a graphic novel. But that would be a lot of work. Too much for someone as uninspired and unartistic as yours truly. So I figured why not give one of the AI machines … Continue reading Rainy Season, AI-Imagined

Thriving
reflecting uponmy fault of mortality reminds me to live #mementomori Continue reading Thriving

This is a no brainer…
Pun intended. Comparing George Orwell’s “1984″ to Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” Postman then added that, “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for … Continue reading This is a no brainer…

Literary Zen XI
There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire. *Perhaps a better … Continue reading Literary Zen XI

Just because I love you…
Free books today. Get some❤ Continue reading Just because I love you…

To whom does your brain belong?
#bealltheghostyoucanbe Continue reading To whom does your brain belong?

If it’s not yet time to start worrying…
It’s getting awfully close. BTW, if you’re wondering whether the creep in the video has the street cred to back up his Earth-ending bombast, he is affectionately known in Russia’s kleptocratic circle as “Putin’s mouthpiece.” I wonder what the Vegas … Continue reading If it’s not yet time to start worrying…

Sunday Songs to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance
You probably know that Steve Earle is a world-renowned folk/country/crossover singer-songwriter… And maybe you know that he is also an actor, having appeared on The Wire, Treme, and other productions, his characters mostly mirroring his life as a musician, as … Continue reading Sunday Songs to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance

Does it matter if our soul* is eternal?
Leaving religion with its heavens and hells and golden-paved avenues and abiding virgins and doting angels and disinterested saints and other high-ranking, hifalutin gods and demigods aside, is there an actual evolutionary and/or functioning purpose for an eternal soul? In … Continue reading Does it matter if our soul* is eternal?

Literary Zen X
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. Continue reading Literary Zen X

Huzzah! The pandemic is receding so we no longer need to fear the end of humanity!
Wait! Putin said what?! Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so, to create threats to our country, to our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate. And it will lead you to such consequences that you … Continue reading Huzzah! The pandemic is receding so we no longer need to fear the end of humanity!

Still kinda thinking about converting one of my books into a GIF and selling it as an NFT…
Well, maybe I’m not thinking so much about converting one of my books into an NFT — that just seems too futile and heartbreaking an endeavor — but I am still thinking about and trying to understand this whole nutty … Continue reading Still kinda thinking about converting one of my books into a GIF and selling it as an NFT…

The Way Better Day Than Tomorrow
I’m told to live my life like There’s no tomorrow But truly There has to be a better way For if the morrow never comes And it’s my last breath I breathe today How will I know to appreciate it … Continue reading The Way Better Day Than Tomorrow