Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

The Time it Takes

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Joy fills the air. People dance past the colorful carts, listen, listen to songs of the vendors wares. Imagine you are actually there. Lovers walk out hand in hand. clutched close in each other’s embrace. Walk towards the sunset, away from dawn. No thought of the distance or […]

Our Biggest Fan

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ What will the future say, decide about any and all such, artists, writers, musicians, creators who prod and poke? Will they say we lack his-story or have much too much? Will they describe us sage, wise or flawed, call us a joke? Will they understand our inner muses, […]

Every Atom

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Are you curious? Do you want to know why the moon must depart at night? Even while you see its glow shining, it’s a pale reflection of the fierce furnace which illumines everything that shows. Yet, our star is missing half the day. Surely, that is why our […]

For Now

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~   Thinking fondly of home, in all its incarnations, modalities through spacetime only now. Repeat, alternate within people. Our lives and ourselves, you see. You do see, or have you never taken time to look, to explore; reason, emotions, ramifications? Conclusion, which may change. Every step we take […]

Squared Dancing

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Invariance, it’s plain to see helps you be you, me be me. And no reason to be scared. Simply remember, E = mc2 ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know […]

Is It Simply?

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Walk with me a while, holding hands. The leaves turn red, die. Snow falls, a soft blanket to cover us, smooth the lumps and bumps of our lives. All a grand illusion, artist’s sleight of hand, our hidden creation. Still, our steps are only preparation, practice, until we […]

Vox Clamantis in Deserto

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ This verse has been modified from one I wrote, Full Stop, in August of 2014. What will it take for our madness to stop? If it ever does. More senseless killings, now Tennessee, another school is violated. Three adults and three children, stricter gun laws are indicated. Not […]

What the Future

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Making new connections never known, expected. Found by reaching out. Who knows what the future holds, what any move may change, to what comes after? Every moment passes by. Every glance, nod, head shake, and breath births new chances and possibilities. Unless we stop, flinch, stay in a […]

Seeking Always to Return

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Dancing here, watching you dancing there, another step. Similar to mine, sometimes, counterpointed, turned away. I reach out, offering my steps to you, hoping you will try. Will we walk in tandem then together or walk another way? I do not, cannot know, though I yearn to shelter […]

A Country Alone

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The organ’s sonorous voice carries the mourners from the church out into a rain of tears flooding a bright, sunny day. fuzzing sight, and calling the past present. Too much food; some of it strange that we’ll never eat. Fueled by memory, sharing. potluck casseroles, alcohol, we will […]