For those of us that are proudly left of liberal the density of the last eight years slowly passes as a dark, soulless sludge. We have never recognized ourselves in the reactionary slogans of the Republicans. We only see their own narcissistic, dark dreams personified when they begrudge liberals or the left. We still do [...]
There is nothing inherently evil about government and nothing inherently good about private business. Those that would insist on either can only do so based on dogmatic, immutable and therefore, un-falsifiable, ideological grounds. Once an ideology is calcified into a meta-ideology of this sort no contrarian, empirical event can dislodge it. A meta-ideology can [...]
While the notion of freedom is a high and lofty ideal, exactly what it means and how it gets implemented demands thought prior to action. Otherwise, we may find ourselves defending a “freedom” that is nothing other than a self-serving delusion and stuck in a quagmire while the body bag count goes up. Did anyone [...]
Heidegger (H.) tells us we all have a pre-cognitive understanding of “being” already at work in our “everydayness”. There are different ways that we relate to being. For example, when we use a hammer to build something, we are relating to that hammer with a “pre-understanding” of its being. We are relating to it in the mode [...]
“Perception is everything” appears to be the organizing paradigm of modern political campaigns in the US. Technology and capital have combined into the perfect storm for managing perception. Perceptions thrust into the early years of technology kept the Republicans largely out of office for decades after FDR and the Great Depression. Republicans were portrayed as [...]
Swirling, whirling, worlding snow Shimmering, soft white into half lit fog Walking up my mountain From home to peak How many lives have I made this journey? Now, frosted Aspen branches Delicate, curling intricately Telling their gnarly story silently Thriving, striving, intertwining Barely visible in blazing sun But now, icy frost gives them voice Burgeoning, [...]
Spring returns in your eyes. Youth springs eternal in your gaze. Your waters ever flow through my soul. Watering my spirit with your beauty (body). You see yourself anew in my eyes. You scare yourself again in my gaze. Who looks at you with love’s eyes? Is it someone you knew long ago or someone [...]
Oh what a delicate balance of earth and sky we are Sky never knows to forget Earth never forgets to know Only humankind can drink from the grail of forgetfulness The sorrows of death The moment of enlightenment All washed into the same abysmal extinction We are drenched in the future and re-invented from the [...]
I live in your words Where my orb is bound and measured In the grace of your spoken moment. Your words stake me to the ground And lift me to soar with eagles. They rain on my weariness And let me stand naked Shimmering in the ecstasy of a million new suns. I am spoken [...]
