To feel pain is to be alive, to feel another’s pain is to be human—-Leo Tolstoy Recovery And Spirituality Grandfather Great Spirit Revisited Published by Bruce on October 25, 2023 Like Anais Nin, I am a writer, and an explorer Read more…
First photo is from 1973-1974 University of Portland student body card. The USAF ROTC was unimpressed with my hair, even with my near record score on their academic AFOQT scholarship and entrance exam (I walked away from it all later Read more…
Bill Wilson of AA renown, 20 years after his own recovery from alcoholism in 1935, engaged in psychedelic therapy for his chronic depression, beginning in 1955. He believed that this therapy would be of great benefit to those recovering people Read more…
It is heartbreaking work to be the primary caregiver for a family member or friend suffering from dementia. I cared for 6 years for my father, who suffered mightily, especially the final 18 months of his life. I had no Read more…
Jim and Sharon,, I think we did much better for our lives, and for our Spirit, by not becoming yet another profit centered ego passing as the latest minstrel of Truth, whether Western, or Eastern based in understanding. True guru’s Read more…
FOOTBALL is everywhere, yet again. It is the season to rally around our favorite teams, be they high school, college, or professional. We tend to support the “home” teams (go Ducks, Beavers!)I never had a home professional team, being from Read more…
I completed this phase of my week of tears and mourning, and smiles, joy, and celebration, around my upbringing and my entire school experience, The 50-year class reunion brought many hours of contemplation, meditation, and healing intentions and actions, and Read more…
50-year Rex Putnam 1973 class reunion Saturday night and Sunday! Kudos to Steven Riddell for organizing the event! I really did not want to come to the reunion, yet I knew that it was required for some measure of healing Read more…
Table Of Contents introductory/prologue/first chapter type of material. Part One Author’s Note Prologue Revisiting a Troubled Past, Finding A Way To Live In The Present Introduction (2) or Chapter One Danny B. And The Potential Cost Of Telling The Truth Read more…
Set your course by the light of the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship–Omar Bradley The number 42 is a significance number in the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. The Read more…
No More Turning Away—Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence How can we see the big picture, when we put just our face, the face of our past, our family history, and the history of humankind, in the picture frame? Research for Read more…
No More Turning Away—Breaking The Conspiracy Of Silence How can we see the big picture, when we put just our face, the face of our past, our family history, and the history of humankind, in the picture frame? Research for Read more…
I find myself sad, and a little tearful this morning. I grieve for all the spinoffs, or exiles of self that I created, and sent off into the deep wilderness of my unexplored interior domain due to Read more…
This is a posthumous happy father’s day message about our father, Beryl Donald Paullin, who passed on Sept 16, 2017. Sharon and I read some of Dad’s 100’s of famous expressions today. What insight, and wit that he possessed! And, Read more…
I sent the introduction/prologue to nearly four dozen of my friends, and important acquaintances. I received three replies, and one had no clue what I was talking about. Well, I am not deterred. I am guessing that this book will Read more…
Prologue-Book #8 . No More Turning Away—Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, by Bruce Paullin . If you want to become whole, let yourself be broken. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become Read more…
(Final Edit According To My Editor, but I will be making a final adjustment of about 10 additional pages prior to submittal for publishing) No More Turning Away; How to Break the Conspiracy of Silence and Embrace Life By Bruce Read more…
Enlightenment If we can awaken from the dream of separation from our true and noble nature, we can be healed, and the beauty, awe, and the mystery and magesty of life can predominate. With our awakenings, the one true Read more…
Photo taken by famous raconteur, African historian, conservationist, photographer, and tour guide, Russell Gammon. He caught me in a rare moment of serious observation of wildlife—-of fellow Road Scholars ‘at our amazing barbecue and picnic in the middle of the Read more…
While on a 107 day vacation, interest in the blog site has plummeted to never before seen levels. I am in the process of writing two new books, one a fictional book, tentavivrly named Escape From The Labyrinth, and one Read more…