Book # 8 Chapters

  Prologue: Mythology, Religion, Liars, The Conspiracy Of Silence, And The Cloak Of Invisibility (maybe Chapter 1) Prologue (alternate): The Miracle Experiment and the Conspiracy Of Silence Chapter 2:  Trauma Chapter 3:  Defender Dan and The Mind Of Man Chapter 4: To Be Born In Ancient Times, To Be Born Read more

Underworld Barb

I don’t remember exactly when I first met Barbara, but Steve had introduced us in the late summer.  She kept turning up at after hours parties and other supposedly spontaneous happenings around se Portland that I had been invited to,  She was to become an emotionally unavailable running mate for Read more

No Makena Beach heroics today. Sacred silence and ocean waves, are imbued with nature’s call for love. Why can this moment be run over by so many divisive voices? Silence, real silence, is feared, and must be replaced by the words and thoughts of those controlled by the hapless ego’s Read more

To Speak

What value is a story, if it is never told? What value is love, if it is never shared? What is the value of speaking, if nobody is even willing to listen? According to the introduction to the movie “Alien”, “In space, no one can hear you scream”. And, if Read more

What Is an Archetype?

  An archetype is an emotion, character type, or event that is notably recurrent across the human experience. In the arts, an archetype creates an immediate sense of familiarity, allowing an audience member to relate to an event or character without having to necessarily ponder why they relate. Thanks to Read more

8th 6

Day 12:  Joshua Tree to Old Town Temecula ( uncensored version)

Route 66 has ended for us, alas, yet we get to connect with family in Temecula.

Joshua Tree National Park is amazing, to say the least, so that I will.  Chet King, fellow ” laughing cholla”, photo number 6 is for you!  A cactus called the cholla decided to jump onto my calf.  Akiko supplied the gloves, and Sharon White had the pleasure of separating my calf from an unfriendly, painful hitchhiker.

On to dinner in Old Town, with Sharon’s number one son, and now only child (Brad is over 50 years old, I guess that he is not a child anymore, eh?), his wife Dawn, and our number 3 grandson Tony.

Some family members continue to travel on the infamous Route 666. I will not participate in any family conspiracy of silence, where dishonesty is a treasured value.  Our number 2 grandson, who is quite ” damaged” is also not so mysteriously connected with a missing daughter, who, not coincidentally, is incredibly damaged goods, as well. Each has a potentially fatal problem with knowing and telling the truth, and acting with honesty and integrity in their affairs.  As they say ” in the Program”, at the end of Route 666 is either death, insanity, and/or jail, and they are both living into those nightmares, and have normalized their own stupidity over the courses of their lives
Sad..

Families are like our planet Earth, they can’t be healed by taking a torch to them.  No one heals by sacrificing another in the flames of one’s own hatred and ignorance.  We have been the sacrificial lambs in the past, but now we wear spiritual kevlar.,

May they both find healing and peace, FAR AWAY FROM US!

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