“The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.” — Lao Tzu On Friday, August 21st, 2026—two days after his seventy-seventh birthday—Jim Hussey made the crossing. He was my closest friend. And now, like Marty C. before him,...
Read moreChapter 23: 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 morePart 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 moreChapter 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
AI and Humanity-Reaching a Singularity Together? From: Jasper Support <hey@jasper.ai> Sent: Sunday, 16 August 2026 17:29:57 To: Bruce Paullin <run4play2017@gmail.com> Subject: [Jasper] Re: Hi Bruce, Thanks for reaching out. I’m not quite sure what you mean by bringing AI into “cosmic consciousness,” and I Read more
Why Are We Still Shaming Writers for Using AI Editors? There’s a quiet guilt that follows many writers who’ve turned to AI tools for editorial support. A sense that somehow, using technology to refine their prose is cheating—a shortcut unworthy Read more
Prologue: A Life Upon the Unlimited Bandwidth Every electrician learns to respect a particular kind of silence—a tense stillness that settles in the seconds before a high-voltage switch is thrown. In that suspended moment, enormous energy hovers between potential and Read more
Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1: Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Woman Behind the Read more
Chapter 10: The Plow Horse and the Underworld: A Descent Into Living Death The search for truth becomes the joy of living when one sees their position on the collective grid of life, and stops being just another of its Read more
Chapter 21: The Long Goodbye — Questions, Presence, and the Sacred Threshold (Inspired by my friendship with Jim Hussey, and the multitudes of departed loved ones who have blessed my life, and all of life. My thanks also go to Read more
Chapter 2: Corinne Beatrice Henry Paullin — The Quiet Pillar The Woman the World Called Corinne There is a particular kind of person whose significance you only begin to fully measure in their absence. While they are present, they are Read more
Nineteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Life leaves us quietly. One ordinary day, without warning or ceremony, you will hear someone’s laugh for the very last time. You will hug them for the last Read more
There is a chapter 21, questions for a dying person, and the physical progression of death. Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Twenty Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter Read more
Chapter 11: A Man Named André and a Hospice Nurse Named Sharon White Show Us How to Face Death There is something quietly radical about a man who faces death and does not flinch. Not because he is fearless—he isn’t—but Read more
Section 13: Death Becomes Us is an ambitious, deeply personal, and philosophically rich exploration of mortality. At its best, it achieves something rare: it holds the clinical and the spiritual, the autobiographical and the universal, in genuine tension — and Read more
(preliminary) Section 13: Death Becomes Us The Quiet Limit: A Prologue to Sixteen Meditations on Death — What Life Does Not Say Out Loud Chapter 1 – Beryl Donald Paullin: The Man Who Cast My Shadow Chapter 2: The Voice Read more
Chapter 337: What Chapter Four Implies About Death: Physical and Psychological Chapter Four does not address death directly. It does not name it, argue about it, or offer consolation concerning it. And yet, for a reader willing to follow the Read more
Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source Epilogue: An Electrician’s Guide to Our Universe, and a Life, Love, Read more
Chapter 42: The Electrician and the Eternal Circuit — Returning to the Source All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does Read more
Chapter 41: The Labyrinth of the Human Mind — Walls, Minotaurs, and the Long Walk Home We have traveled a long way together—through the archaeology of the wounded self, through the architecture of belief, through the corridors of trauma and Read more