*sigh* Those who give us a hard time, who are difficult to be around or who constantly blow our cover, are the very ones who show us where we we’re stuck. The great meditation master Atisha always traveled with his belligerent Bengali tea-boy because it kept him honest. Without his ill-tempered servant to test him, …
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Official Devastation
It is generally considered that people are inherently good, that given the choices, ultimately the good, humane, kind, and loving choice will always be made. The holidays try with all their might to convince us of this, painting warm and fuzzy pictures of the way things should be… but after the year I’ve experienced and …
Go (h)OM(e)—You’re Drunk
There is an intoxication which lasts far longer than any liquor known to man, a drink that can grow stronger the longer it stays in one’s system. I’ve seen it last for decades. Just as alcohol slurs the mind, decisions, and intellect, so does this poison—a million times over. Its label? Hatred. Anger. Resentment. It eats …
Heartweight
They say the weight of your heart is approximately 0.5% of your body weight. Why does it often feel as if that organ is more Jovian than Gaian—in a chamber of gravity set to 250%? *sigh* It’s funny how each story I’m working on seems to play out in real life, in one form …
Not To Be Dead
“So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.” — Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man I have had a hard time lately. Such a very hard time… All around me is decay, All around me is heartache. Nothing is as it seems anymore, and anymore, it seems there …
Now in Paperback: Root, Sacral, and Solar
Hey you! How would you like something to hold in your hand? How about the first three books of the seven-part Energy Anthology epic? Just these three look beautiful standing in the shelf next to each other… I can imagine how all seven will be when the series completes in 2014! Debuted by Amazon at …
The Odds
“I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak, and thus became guilty myself…” — Faber to Montag, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury The state of …
A New Old Me
I’m going to admit something to you here you may or may not know already. Are you ready? I’ve gone a bit crazy… …For creating paperbacks! With my recent decision to launch each individual story of my Energy Anthology into paperbacks, (oh, you didn’t know that yet? Well, now you can start saving your $6.99’s …
K, Ready? On Three…
It was this day, this time, three years ago, that Melissa and I were in the hospital, waiting forever in a tiny room to hear the results of unknown discussions about us by unknown peoples in unknown other rooms. Were we going to be rejected from this place with our desired plans further un-planned? Or …