PinnedMember-onlyGriefGrief For a long while, I have noticed and resisted and — yes — resented a distinct trend being set and applauded by our culture. It is this: People are hurried along, our grieving and sorrow duly noted, and often shared, not perfunctorily, but honestly — by those who love…3 min read3 min read
Sep 5Member-onlyUnions in your rearview?“President Shawn Fain UAW President Shawn Fain speaks at Detroit’s Labor Day rally — YouTube. UAW President Shawn Fain spoke at Detroit’s Labor Day Parade on Monday in Corktown, with just 10 days before the union could strike against the Big 3 automakers.1 day ago.” There’s your picket sign. Speaking…2 min read2 min read
Aug 26Member-onlyThis is dedicated….to the one I love.I have spent a LOT of time in and out of the tiny, tucked-away second hand book stores of my life. No, I didn’t always find a “signed first edition”. …1 min read1 min read
Jul 19Member-onlyA LAND OF NO FOLLOWERSWe are all Light Leaders. In the New Landscape, there are no Followers. Each spirit/body is sovereign. We exist as energetic beings who resonate the highest frequencies. Corporeal is temporary; our energies are eternal. In the New Landscape, each energy is separate, powerful, symbiotic. If there are no Followers, how…1 min read1 min read
Jul 10Member-onlySenior Skip DayI did not always take care of myself in younger days. At 19, being 40 seemed a point on a very long trajectory — an endless dark Texas stars-at-night highway marked with exit signs I chose to ignore. I will be 71 in three months. I do not look it…2 min read2 min read
Jul 6Member-onlyIt is a kind of dissociation that borders on a preview of what it may be like — in a near-future —…It is a kind of dissociation that borders on a preview of what it may be like — in a near-future — to be a hybrid of our old selves…1 min read1 min read
Jul 1Member-onlyJUST BEING THEREJUST BEING THERE As a consistently, systemically bullied (emotionally, mentally, physically) undiagnosed neurodivergent child in the 1950s and ’60s — I can attest firsthand that the stigma of being “different” in ANY discernible way to normies is a time-release recipe for emotional disaster. Even when modern-day diagnoses and more fully-trained…2 min read2 min read
Jun 17Member-onlyHow do I love thee? Let me count the forks.I have just awakened. I hear him emptying his bowels. I know my first task of the morning will be sanitizing the toilet, the handle, the sink, the light switch, the doorknobs — everything he has touched with unwashed hands. It occurs to me there should be a product like…2 min read2 min read
May 30Member-onlyBlank slate epiphaniesEach generation follows the last, push broom in hand. -J1 min read1 min read
May 30Member-onlycontextHe has large, disconnected pieces of heavy iron machine parts which are oddly artistic in shape and invisible function. I ask, “What does THIS go to?” “Those are parts of…1 min read1 min read
