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 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 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 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. 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
I have had problems with my vision for several years. Life has become like a walk through a series of continuous “fun house mirrors”. There were no “straight lines” in my ocular universe, because of epiretinal membrane bunching. I had Read more…
As our nation continues to seek for Donald Trump’s true heart and soul, We find not sacred nuggets of gold, only profane lumps of coal. My father, Beryl Paullin, might have been proud of me, had he lived long enough Read more…
We love our country, but our country does not love us back—Doc Rivers There are two pandemics raging right now: COVID-19, and the collective hatred and idiocy spawned by and spewed by Donald Trump and his supporting cast of racist, Read more…
“It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society”—Jiddu Krishnamurti Be mindful oh Mankind, of all the painful secrets that we must keep,By sharing with others we may awaken, or by our suffering silence Read more…
The 1000 page Senate Intelligence Committee report explicitly states that Roger Stone coordinated WikiLeaks email hacks, and their subsequent release with Donald Trump’s knowledge, and participation. Paul Manafort consorted with and was paid by the Russians, in a most dangerous Read more…
I started crying right from the very start of my life. I had horrible nightmares nightly until I was eight years old. Yes, there was definitely something wrong, but I did not have the capacity to verbalize the words to Read more…
“Our lives begin to end, the moment that we become silent about things that matter” Martin Luther King, Jr. Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will Read more…