Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Your Current Task

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The call comes at an inopportune moment, but the response is equal to the challenge. A hero steps forth, though they do not appear equal to the task at hand. How will they find the sacred jewel, the hidden tome which holds the answers? Will they alone […]

Still As Fragile

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Only you may know the truth which lives inside of you. Private beings, no matter how open we may try to be. When we try to be open and free, we may come close, yet there’s always something lingering within our core. That spark of what we […]

A Different Route

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Walking in the cold along the Esplanade, watching the people as they watch the sea. On the pier, fisher folk cast lines and drop crab pots, waiting to see what their luck or skill will be this day. It’s cold and I pull the sleeves of my […]

As If

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The lark ascends in the morning, more presage of hope than warning, going now into the sky, plying currents invisible to me. What might it see from its height aloft? Does the earth look hard or soft? Do the currents distort my vision? Indecision rules my life, […]

Forever

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Mother gently rocks the cradle, the little one fast asleep as long as the motion doesn’t cease. Now he’s growing, knowing sights and sounds for the first time, both exciting and sublime. Shriek of joy, shriek of terror. Whether this is right or wrong or where we […]

What You’ll Learn

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Hurry forward and assume your place. It’s still the same game, the same race. Some will tell you it’s different every time, appearance might suggest another clime. It’s always different, yet always the same, different boards and tokens, the same game. So, step right up and take […]

Will I See It?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Might I begin to understand my lingering doubt? Spout my wisdom, yet be ignored. My briefest, brightest light deplored. My plight, much too similar to most, the host who fills the world and is as soon forgotten. Like rotten meat and veggies saved too long, belong only […]

Love and Being

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes I wonder where I will be tomorrow or the next day. Will my life continue as it has so far? Who can say? No one I know can tell me my future. Nor do I think it often known, rarely imagined. Though I know love will […]

Impossibility

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The shadows flit tree to tree and building to building, the players hiding, laughing. The game, the one we all play, our shadow tag, which is more than the time to hate or the time to adore. We run and laugh and dance and sing, looking for […]

Follow the Path

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Leaves drift slowly through the trees. Solid sentinels in orange, red and yellow, ground beneath them carpeted in color, turning brown around the fall of seasons. The reasons held in those discarded, like bare branches of the winter’s trees. Bare or clad in white, more funereal than […]