Watching individual liberty fall from the Red State of Texas — It seems like we’ve been holding our breath since the draft decision leaked last month presaging the fall of Roe v. Wade. Last Friday’s release of the official decision let loose an angry roar from the advocates of self determination and an exuberant shout from those who seek to subjugate…

Transform yourself, transform the world — Do you ever have those days when you want to get in the car and drive? You don’t care where the road goes as long as it goes. You don’t care where it ends as long is it isn’t here. Somewhere, where the music is good, the beer is cold…

A love poem — It’s cold in the world of difference. In the outpost of the soul, A faint and burning star Creeps across the sable Expanse of solitude. You’re suited up against the cold, Against the hostile environment Peopled with perfection, So right, so true, so lost To the world of difference. The…

This is not another lamentation on violence in America, not a condemnation of the shootings in Uvalde nor the dozen or so that have occurred since that terrible day. I do not think words thrown at the issue have an impact at all on the presence of violence in America. …

Mountains and Deserts and Demons, oh my!! — Zarathustra climbs the mountain not to escape humanity but to find it. Not to escape himself, but to become who he is. The human psyche has been dropping hints on how the human condition evolves its categorical differences since we picked up our knuckles from the ground several hundred thousand…

An Unpopular Meditation — The work of our forebears at Stonewall in 1969 wasn’t pride. It was a fight; a fight for survival, a fight against bigotry and oppression. It was a strong example of Dr. King’s quote, ‘A riot is the language of the unheard.’ …

All the things that scare you lie within — Fear has no life outside the human mind; it is a weak and fragile thing that needs to feed off your thoughts and emotions to survive. The middle 20th century Existentialists waxed morose about death and nothingness as the horizon of human existence. It is the one truth we cannot…

It’s about more than your naughty bits — We inhabit a world of immanent vastness, our fingertips the keys that open its delights. All the screens and devices, those portals of infinite variety, beckon us touch and see and feel the joy of any desire we may have. …

Essi est percipi — I doom-scroll through the world on a daily basis, marveling at the chaos the 21st century is becoming. The only way it gets this bad is through trying. Even on its worst day, probability wouldn’t come up with this. …