PinnedMember-onlyEarly Othering, Racism and Satori in 1970s AmericaI had alopecia areata when I was 12. At the time, our family was living in Del City, Oklahoma. It was the late 1970s. My father was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base but we lived off-base, in the Del Rancho neighborhood. The affliction was pretty obscure back then, but…Satori6 min readSatori6 min read
Apr 7Member-onlyTennessee and the vast conspiracy against White AmericaThis ousting of the two black Tennessee legislators and near-ousting of the white woman legislator who stood with them and the people trying to get some form of gun control passed is indicative of a core American contradiction. Americans love their guns and their children. The love of children is…Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
Feb 8Member-onlyZombies Seeking Lifelines Beyond ApocalypseIt can be very easy to let life’s flow carry you across the torrents cascading through the river of your life. To “go along to get along”. You can get in a groove, working, playing, raising kids. Your kinship network runs on auto; see the parents, dine with siblings, drop…Future3 min readFuture3 min read
Feb 3Member-onlyWhat is holding you back?What is holding you back? What do you do as a positive habit that you continue, day after day, week after week? What do you want to do that could change your life? Think about it. And then just do it. We make that statement harder than it seems when…Mindfulness2 min readMindfulness2 min read
Jan 21Member-onlyThe SeekerThe path is shimmering and variable, wending its way zigging and zagging multidimensionally. It shines sometimes and other times it is a faint glimmer of possibility as it forks and twists through human consciousness and cultural expression. It pops up in this religion as a shining point of light, in…Mindfulness3 min readMindfulness3 min read
May 24, 2022Member-onlyThe Great Replacement Theory: There’s nothing new under the sunI’ve been teaching about the Great Replacement Theory all of my teaching career. It wasn’t called that back then, but, in essence, that is what I and others have been doing since at least the early 1990s. When I first started teaching introductory classes in Geography, almost 30 years ago…Racism5 min readRacism5 min read
Apr 6, 2022Member-onlyNaPoWriMo 5/30 A Chosen State of MindOnce upon a time I lost my mind and found myself living a life I didn’t choose. That is to say, that at that time, I was choosing to cruise, choiceless, letting life live me, going with the flow, rather than living what I know. How many of us do…Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read
Apr 6, 2022Member-onlyNaPoWriMo 4/30 Funkalicious PhonedomThe idea that we’ve all got 15 minutes of fame coming is to blame for the social media games we find ourselves playing. We stay on notify, vibrating phones thrumming, chuckling, whispering quiet seductions in our pockets and purses, tempting, spitting verses designed for our minds specifically, programmed precisely. Instagram…Poetry4 min readPoetry4 min read
Apr 6, 2022Member-onlyNaPoWriMo 3/30 Eternity UndefinedAn ebony expanse Pin-pricked by iridescent Ivory beacons Blinking Shining Extending endlessly extant Forever defined as the Unimaginable Incomprehensible continuation Moments stretched unto the Infinite Marking time Chopping wood Carrying water Again and again only the Now Present Visceral and immediate Never-ending sameness Differentiated experientially by Experience multidimensionally-layered Stacked cords…Poet1 min readPoet1 min read
Apr 4, 2022Member-onlyNaPoWriMo 2/30 Alliterative IllusionsAmbient assignations assail august aeries, assuming abundance, alliances of avuncular allies announce alliterate ambulations aggregating against ambivalence. Coddled codgers catch colds, collate crews cresting, creating, crunk cabelleros catch crawdads, crying, coarse crenellations cracking, culling crows. Fabulously frenetic foes fend for fantastical fawns freely, feeling fine, fornicating, fomenting fondness for freaks…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
