Recovery is not just for heavy drinkers and/or abusers of drugs, it is for people who want to make positive, life affirming and healing changes in their lives. This post is an excerpt from my new book, and is a Read more…
Be mindful, oh Mankind, of all of the painful secrets that we must keep, For, by our suffering silence, we will not awaken, but just die alone, powerless, and asleep. ——Bruce Paullin This post is not for anyone in particular. Read more…
This material was to be included in Book #8. oil, I don’t know. Much of the following written material has been presented before, in my various Facebook and blog posts. Some people may think that Facebook or this blog site Read more…
An “evolved and spiritually aware” friend of mine from the past posted a message sourced through Ted Nugent on his Facebook page yesterday. Yes, Gary Span…. is that important of a person, with worldwide influence. I responded to him with Read more…
I have always known that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that we, as humans, live our lives, and communicate with each other. I have not always known what the source of my own disease was, however. My Read more…
I am trying to stay positive, but I feel like I need to return the hateful salute back to the national leaders who have betrayed us. Speak truth to power, in whatever form that it appears. This national/international darkness originated Read more…
The slowly shifting desert sands of time, Created ever taller dunes for this lost soul to climb. Yet, tired of dying in my selfish, hateful world of so little reason and rhyme, I finally sought the way to Truth, and Read more…
“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore.”— Rosa Parks, on refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955 I am primarily a member of the Read more…
I don’t think reading another book written by yet another spiritual master steeped in “white privilege” is going to get the job done. Looking to white Evangelical Christianity for solutions towards racism is identical to looking to active arsonists for Read more…
This blog is written in honor of our beloved Ginger, who died on June 6, 2016. I am going to try to write this one from Ginger’s perspective. Ginger’s relationship with us coincided with the most difficult period in my Read more…
Make America Great Again? With a criminal mob and their self-serving conspiracy theories directing our government? “Oh, and one more thing, you are not going to like what come’s after America . . . “—-Leonard Cohen The latest developments in Read more…
A small part of my personal story is written in this blog about my unique 1980 adventure of being accepted into a black American cultural experience for three weeks. It is a short read. The book that the small blog Read more…
This opsimath blogger strikes again! Somehow, the words just keep popping up in my mind like popcorn in a hot pan. Feel free to add your own corn kernels of wisdom to this one, and together we can cook up Read more…
This opsimath blogger strikes again! Somehow, the words just keep popping up in my mind like popcorn in a hot pan. Feel free to add your own corn kernels of wisdom to this one, and together we can cook up Read more…
There are still lots of opinions out there about how we should feel, about what we should believe, and about how to correctly perceive. Emotions, such as anger and fear, and all of the people in our lives, may be Read more…
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and every one of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators Read more…
Revelation 12:9: “This great dragon — the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world — was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.” John 8:44—”When he lies, he speaks his native language, Read more…
This is my commentary on truth, and the falsehoods springing up around covid-19. There is a continuation of corrosive divisiveness and contrariness of many citizens within our population. There is a bizarre perception that if the facts are disputed enough, Read more…
The thirteenth disciple rides again! Happy Easter to those who believe in the Easter Bunny, the risen Jesus, or whatever that keeps your spiritual row boat floating merrily and peacefully down the stream! I believe in all of us! When Read more…
Are you above 60 years of age, do you have any pre-existing medical conditions, or are you a member of a lower economic group? The whole world faces an incredible challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet these three groups of Read more…