Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Stories We Learn

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth!Gods or Monsters ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Part One Stories we learn are the ones we live. Rarely do we change how we interact. Education may help us rise, but won’t remove the education we had at home. Were we taught to be kind to care and return more […]

Think and Wonder

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Out in the world, I watch and wonder how we ever chose this dangerous path. On our parallel tracks, here to yonder We ask you all day long, do the math. It is not the hard kind, held you back. It’s simply one plus one plus one again. […]

I May Be Wrong

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Information Disconnect ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Sometimes, it is merely the sense it takes to choose whether to sing the world’s song. Like Covid vaccine, masks, for God’s sake. You know you’re right; I know I may be wrong. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]

Offset Antipodes

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Make It So ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ In time, each will rise and each will fall. In that span, all will be morose and elated. Ultimately, together, we shall all stand tall because we understand, we are all related. Not people only. Anything that you think. Yes, that, […]

But Then

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Signal Loss ~ Philip B Harris ~~~~~ If I start, but then I stop, can it be possible for me to go? Examine life bottom to top, might I then begin to know? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! […]

Claim It

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Blue Mood ~ Wish You Were Here ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Don’t know where I left my brain today. Perhaps it still lies sleeping in my bed. Can’t seem to focus, know what to say. Funny. I look in a mirror, see my head. Maybe my brain is […]

Simply

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What if the stars and galaxies disappeared you awaken unable to speak or understand? Where would you go if able dance through time? Which dance would you choose and why? We hurl ourselves into space, although never too far. Perhaps, one day soon we will marry our dreams […]

Gone Now

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! The Secret ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ The flashes of memory from childhood. My friend, Michael. We played superheroes in homemade masks and capes. An elementary school named for an Indian, Pontiac. A move between 3rd and 4th grade left me lacking in the mysteries long division. Confusion, exiting […]

Lest We

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Memento Mori ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ If you think you know what’s best please, won’t you enlighten the rest. It’d be to everyone’s advantage lest we continue trying and fail the test. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! […]

But We Must Reach

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Is it nature or is it art? Nature is art on its own. Sometimes we create something exceptional using nature and have no reason we must atone. Yet, other times we take life with complete and utter disregard and we wonder why life’s hard. I think we need […]