What’s one strong belief you possess that isn’t shared by your closest friends or family? What inspires this belief? What have you done to actively live it? Language contributes more than direct experience to the realities people adopt. Our species is the symbol making species. We recognize and create patterns. We employ symbols to simplify [...]
Describe the day in one sentence. Today is like every other day, blending yesterday and tomorrow; a band of light in the sky of time brushed with colors like no others. © 2011 Chrome Poet
They’ve given me fifteen minutes and a keyboard. Idiots. They have no idea how foolish I can look in fifteen minutes. To begin – We waste age. Illusions ingrained by social messaging permeate our culture. Social, political, economic, religious – every aspect of our timid existence dims beneath clouds of delusion. Social-programming paints belief on [...]
Thaw waters high, swirling by; Crazy eddy babble song. Cranes dance. Kite-winds sigh. © 2011 Chrome Poet
What would cause a writer who enjoys writing to let his blog stagnate for more than a year? You might suspect Death, solver of all problems and pooper of all parties, recycler of all things fleshy, collector of final dues and eraser of memory arrived on the writer’s stoop to close all accounts, past, present [...]
The essay I expected to post today got away from me, twisted down unexpected threads, returned suddenly to intended idea, darted left, flew right and unrestrained soared toward the sun. More words than necessary to explain I did not complete what I intended to complete. Rather than enter a poor essay I present a photograph [...]
A game of Focus vs Creativity haunting another waking occasion. Tempting is the Focus pill, resolute immersion, idea, goal, deadline, completion, interrupted only by frequent washing of hands. Enjoyable the other, natural, unmedicated Creativity, bouncing, fluttering thought, associative, continually dancing like sunlit patches splattered on a forest floor; laughing images, wise, silly, foolsung phrases; fragments [...]
Censorship promotes ignorance. Censorship attempts to discourage or prevent access to media. Media contains information. Failure to attain information perpetuates ignorance of that information. Preventing access to media prevents access to information. Censorship prevents access to media. Therefore Censorship promotes ignorance. No logical path can circumvent this simple truth. You may argue that most media [...]