I wrote this a decade ago at the conclusion of a little essay called “We’re all gonna die” (page 31): “Refuse to be afraid. Resist the impulse to yield to the fear and let someone strip your liberty in the name of security and protection. Live like you were dying – because you are dying,Continue reading “High crimes and misdemeanors”
Category Archives: Free yourself
I am an impostor
Oh, man, I’m not into this today. My brain is resisting the various promises I’ve made to write this or do that or make this call or research that. It feels so comfy just to sit and do nothing. “You have been there and done that your whole life, fulfilling those promises, and see whereContinue reading “I am an impostor”
A search for one thing
My mind wanders and wanders and runs off track and down rabbit holes. So many directions and so many tracks and so many holes! Is there an advantage to focusing on one thing? Of course there is, but there is also a time to explore and to find other options and alternatives to the oneContinue reading “A search for one thing”
All the words!
All the words I’ve stored on shelves all around! There must be millions. Surely the books in this house alone number in the thousands: There are 37 just on my Ray Bradbury shelf (36 Bradbury books and A Christmas Carol), one of eight bookshelves on the walls of this room and not counting the bookcasesContinue reading “All the words!”
Fight the Fear
Fear has become the motivating factor in this contemporary world of ours. Life is portrayed as a maelstrom of forces beyond the power of the individual to tame. It’s a lie. You can tame the maelstrom, if you can tame your fear. I came to that conclusion more than a decade ago and put outContinue reading “Fight the Fear”
This most amazing dawn
Part 5 of 5. Thank you, Lord, for this most amazing week. Sunday morning brings a new start, another round of seven days. Thank you, Lord, for this most amazing year. Jan. 1 brings another cycle of days and weeks and months. We are a rare set of generations, who are able to have saidContinue reading “This most amazing dawn”
This most amazing memory
Part 4 of 5. Thank you, Lord, for this most amazing day. This most amazing day does not begin with a trumpet fanfare proclaiming itself to the universe, unless you count a slow, steady emerging light defeating darkness as a fanfare — although you have to admit, wiping darkness off the landscape is a prettyContinue reading “This most amazing memory”
