Chapter 14: Marty C. and a New Sunrise

From Section 6:  Death Becomes Us Chapter 14: Marty Crouch and a New Sunrise Donelle’s story is, among other things, an indictment of the silence we maintain around our most vulnerable. Marty’s story is different in tone, different in circumstance, Read more

Section Three: The Word–35 Chapters (September 11, 2026)

Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3:  The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more

The Word-Jasper September 10, 2026

Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3:  The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more

For Jasper: The Word–36 Chapters

Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3:  The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more

The Word (For Jasper Evaluation)

Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3:  The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more

Experiments With Section 2: The Word

Chapter 1: The Living Current of Shared Meaning Chapter 2: The First Breath of Meaning — From Primal Grunts to the Architecture of Speech Chapter 3:  The Origin of Language: Exploring Sentience, Intention, and the Depths of Existence Chapter 4: Read more

Section 6: Death Becomes Us All–25 Chapters To Embrace the Love Within Death

A booklet of twenty-five chapters is, in its own way, a small cosmology — a bounded universe of grief, memory, and inquiry nested inside the larger seventy-chapter body of An Electrician’s Guide to the Universe.  Grounding (Chapters 1–5): The author’s Read more

Chapter 24: New and Old Things, Retired Things, Junkyard and Graveyard Things

The Vehicle and the Driver: A Final Reckoning 2001 Newport Marathon Over my lifetime, I’ve had quite the lineup of vehicles. It all started simply enough—with my own two feet, which I estimate have carried me over 75,000 miles through Read more

Chapter 10: A Face Without a Name — The Living Portrait of June Thomas

Chapter 10: A Face Without a Name — The Living Portrait of June Thomas From Section 6, “Death Becomes Us” “The value of a relationship is entirely independent of its physical permanence.” There is a particular kind of grief that Read more

Chapter 22: Baptism and Rebirthing

Chapter 22: Baptism and Rebirthing Christian baptism is a symbolic act, an attempt to persuade the initiate that the accumulated traumas and wounds of human existence can be surrendered—washed away—so that a clean slate might be prepared to receive the Read more

Many Paths, One Heart A Welcome Speech for Sharon’s 80th Birthday

Many Paths, One Heart A Welcome for Sharon’s 80th Birthday Good afternoon, everyone. Indulge me for a moment. Look around this gathering—really look. Take in the faces here today. What you’re seeing is remarkable. Every single person here arrived by Read more

Chapter 24: New Things, Old Things, Retired Things, Junkyard Things.

Chapter 24: New Things, Old Things, Retired Things, Junkyard Things. Over the course of a lifetime, I have owned a remarkable fleet of vehicles. My inventory began simply enough—my own body, then a tricycle, a bicycle, several skateboards—before expanding into Read more

Part II: The American Shadow — Politics, Power & Violence

Part II: The American Shadow — Politics, Power & Violence Chapter 4: The American Symptom: Politics, Power, and Violence — Defender Dan, The Donald, and the Wounded American Soul Chapter 5: The Architecture of Subjugation: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Read more

Chapter Four: The Calculus of the Infinite — Insights Into the Infinite

Chapter Four: The Calculus of the Infinite — The Fourth and Fifth Insights The Night the Equation Arrived There are moments in a human life when an idea does not feel invented but received. It does not arrive through deduction, Read more