Archive | April 2024
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Exfoliating Our Dysfunctional Tribes
Tribal attitudes are the cause of closed minds, prejudice, and xenophobia. Therefore, I’m a universalist. I’m a citizen of the world.~Robert Westbrook I have spent the better part of my last years attempting to exfoliate tribal detritus from my mental alignment with the ultimate goal of being part of nothing so I can be part […]
Harvesting an Afterlife
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies’ territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.~Edward Abbey There is one more day to pass before the year 2023 on the Gregorian calendar, a modification to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caeser in changing the […]
Meaningless Fantasies
We all end up where we are supposed to be.~Robert McCall If one believes in an omnipotent, somewhat benevolent deity whose whims can be altered by petitions then one can make a case that everywhere we are is where we are supposed to be for the furtherance of the grand, universal plan formed by said […]
Disarmament by Conservatives
You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!~Dr. Who It should come as no surprise adherents to the conservative party in the United States are reading the Hitler playbook and fighting to have books banned in schools, libraries, […]
Building Our Cages
Birds in a cage think flying is an illness.~Alejandro Jodorowsky Many of us humans are born free before spending our days, weeks, years, and decades building the cage in which we will reside for most of our lives, the cage that hems us in before blocking out the light from which wisdom grows. The cage […]
Tabula Not Raza
I am not sure I exist, actually. I am all the writers I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.~Jorge Luis Borges As any engaged parent of multiple children can attest, being born with a Tabula Raza, a blank slate […]
Physical Attraction
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the death, the wedding more than love, and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in a container culture, which despises the content.~Eduardo Galeano There was a time, I freely admit, when I was lured in more by superficialities than substance. I was […]
A God That Answers Prayers is Imperfect
I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.~Terry Tempest Williams I find the entire petitioning the lord with prayer phenomena to be nothing short of absurd. An all-powerful entity existing simultaneously at all […]
Hang the Promise Breakers
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.~Edward Abbey, Prophet I am becoming increasingly disenfranchised with politics in the United States which means I, having grown up during the […]
Musings of a Middle Aged Man 