“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”― James Baldwin The first verse of a song by Kelsea Batterini goes like this; There’s a thin, thin line between love…

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” -Paul Simon, lyrics from the 1973 hit song -Kodachrome A conference of influence peddlers was recently held in Chicago. Politicos, media types, and opinion writers gathered in what was…

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18. — Mark Twain I think I’d rather have a root canal than jump into a frigid body of water in zero-degree temperatures. I know polar bears do it all the…

Every ending is a beginning. We just don’t know it at the time. — Mitch Albom — What’s the saying? In like a lion. Out like a lamb. And so the pandemic ends with a distracted fearful whimper. But more than a few still tweet and squeak having found purpose and meaning in their pandemic fixations as they appear to enjoy keeping others in some state of…

That space between you being awake and unconscious is called hypnagogia. Stay awake, the technoids are looking to setup shop in your dreams. — I’m sure your dream state is the one you’re not living in. Is it California or Utah or Tennessee? But I’m not talking about physical states with beautiful this or that- I’m talking about that piece of real estate between our ears. Our brain and what it does the roughly…

From images of the bloody conflict in Ukraine to headlines claiming the end is near from climate change, our children are struggling with the morality of having children. — (image- The remnants of a Ukrainian hospital in the radioactive zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear facility) Nothing new here but the pandemic has proved once again the power of fear. If confidence in the future and hope for a better tomorrow appear illusory, fear creeps in to fill the void.

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too.” ― Vincent Van Gogh. Alongside sits a very large light blue and white steel tub. It weighs roughly 312 million pounds (156,000 tons)…

And the sign said, “Long-haired freaky people need not apply.” So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why… — There is something about the rebellious soul that is so vibrant, so smirky, so quick to see contradictions, they can cause us great discomfort. They reflect back our simplistic and sometimes nonsensical notions, our blindness to our own bigotries, our selective sense of right from wrong that has us follow…

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”― Nelson Mandela The image of a United Airlines Boeing 767 slamming into the side of the World Trade…