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A part of our family just had a granddaughter come in from out of town for the holiday. Kayla is staying at Toni’s, her mother’s home. Kayla swung by Laretta’s home, who is her grandmother, and our sister, showing off herself and her brother’s baby to Laretta.  Nobody was wearing Read more

I was born 65 years ago today, in Good Samaritan Hospital in NW Portland. There was 18 inches of snow on the ground on November 20, 1955.  My mother and father lived in NW Portland at the time. Mom had to take a cab to the hospital My father was Read more

One evening, a Cherokee elder was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. This battle that goes on between the two wolves is inside us all.   One wolf Read more

“If you repeat a lie often enough, it gets accepted as truth”— Joseph Goebbels-Hitler’s propaganda minister I would rather be socializing with friends, family, and the big wide wonderful world, than writing about insanity. Being stuck at home, and witnessing the insanity unfolding within our Presidency, parts of our government, Read more

“Oh, and by the way, you are not going to like what comes after America . . . ” Leonard Cohen . “I intentionally downplayed the severity of the pandemic”—–Donald Trump (early 2020 book interview) . “I call the media ‘fake news’ to damage their reputations, while elevating my own Read more

This is what I do while on my “creative cloud”. I am a writer, after all. Someday, I may even find interested readers (my take on insight, self awareness, “mindfulness and meditation”, and spiritual evolution are not riveting subjects for the vast majority of Americans)! I have included several links Read more

This is the second part of my continuing series on silence: We arrived at the Oregon coast, at Cannon Beach, on a partly sunny Monday afternoon. We were quickly greeted by our very long-term dear friend from Arizona, June and her ten-year love interest, Michael (are you ever getting married?). Read more

Marty (left) and Me, on a Columbia River Gorge hike in 1998 A New Easter Sunrise Over the years, I have become deeply disturbed by the developments within our shared world, within my individual consciousness, and the points of connection between self and other, through language, religion, and philosophy, that Read more

“Will you shut up man?!”—Joseph Biden Humpty Trumpty sat on hate’s wall, Humpty, Trumpty just had a great fall! All of Putin’s tech henchmen, and the Republican “YES” men, Will not be able to put Trumpty back together again! There was no James Comey sabotaging the candidate this time. Rudy Read more

This is what I do while on my “creative cloud”. I am a writer, after all. Someday, I may even find interested readers (my take on insight, self awareness, “mindfulness and meditation”, and spiritual evolution are not riveting subjects for the vast majority of Americans)! I have included several links Read more

  We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes. — Fred Rogers True Read more

Writing keeps me connected with the implicate order that underlies all of reality, harmony, healing, wisdom, beauty, and love.  Here is my poem, a pointer from the Truth within me, towards that understanding. AWAKENING FROM OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE As seekers for Peace, on its highest sacred mount’ we must continue Read more

You know who he is, and his family’s corrupted and doomed name Though wealth makes him appear different from other liars, inside he’s the same He is always on ego-trip vacations, while playing deadly mind games He occasionally achieves success, yet at such a costly price is this fame. Just Read more

When I was in 6th grade, I was elected class president. The will of my classmates, acting through their own whimsical thinking, made me so. I was not a true leader, but I had an abrasive sense of humor, and a big, ill-informed mouth, which somehow made me attractive as Read more

Hmm, well, here is another blog, which is the combination of two previously published blogs. I have given up on the idea of publishing any books, as I have no interest in promoting my writings to an unwary public. These words might have some significance to somebody, somewhere, other than Read more

Isn’t the aging process just grand? Roll another year, just like the other year, but try to appreciate each new one a little more than the last one. Living a life with less friction keeps the wasted energy at a minimum, and keeps the heart and mind loose, and open. Read more

I am not a part of the ‘Conspiracy Of Silence’, though I will not be “naming names” in this post. I am going to take a brief break from political malfeasance, into the darker recesses of family, and society. These are incredibly, dark, and, sometimes, unenlightened times. The oppression and Read more

“I intentionally downplayed the severity of the pandemic”- Donald Trump. Inject chlorine? Take hydroxychloroquine again? Drop atom bombs on it? I can hardly wait to hear Trump’s personal assessment of what is “best” for him, and for the rest of our country. President Donald Trump, who recently tested positive for Read more

Our Aunt Susie, my father’s younger sister (now age 91) went to the zoo with us today. She had a great time! Sharon bought a wheelchair for her two weeks ago that made this journey a breeze.We are about the only family that she has now, with a daughter, Cindy Read more

34th Amerndment? The rights of our Mother Earth need to be enshrined within our Constitution. Our constitution needs a new amendment, one that protects our environment, including our climate, the air that we breathe, the water that we drink and utilize for our farms and homes, our natural surroundings with Read more