Poverty is a slow-walked demolition of the human spirit. Extreme poverty, not so slow. Those who have not experienced want at this level lack capacity to conceive and to empathize beyond a basic understanding of the meaning of words. Forced choices driven solely by financial considerations. Choosing between paying a power bill and traveling to see your children. Using baking soda to brush teeth, solve digestive ails, clean stains and laundry, and more- not because it works bu

So crazy, beat the strain. Too lazy, shake the gray. So as she willed the rain. So let me be defamed. Your redundancy stains. Tired of infantile claims. Like puppets on a string. Untangle you from me... So crazy, feel the hate. Yeah, I've got years to wait. I know it's not too late. Lending clean hands of fate. Rise from the dirt I'm in. Hide in another's skin. Stick black dress doll with pin. Your mouth takes on my grin... Time to call the doggies off. Tired of the shadowin'

I'm calling Bullshit on the whole "My Truth" thing. Beginning with my own "my Truth". Over the past 3-4 years, through all the therapy, all the counseling, all the recovery, all the doctors and assessments and diagnosis, all the darkness, all the void...I recall a lot of people talking to me about "my truth". About learning to speak my truth...to know it, see it, understand it, articulate it, defend it, and damn near deify it. Bladdidy blah blah... Here's the thing: I don't v

"Bought a ticket for a runaway train, like a madman laughing at the rain... A little out of touch...a little insane...just easier than dealing with the pain." -from Runaway Train, by Soul Asylum Here's a few facts: approximately 5–12% of all hospital emergency department visits are related to mental health conditions, and 20-30% of these persons require hospitalization and extended intervention. I am a statistic. Between late summer and early fall of 2024, I experienced a se

Transmutation. What is it? I've thrown it around as a solution in my writing. I've tossed the word about as though it solves things with a certain "2+2=4" efficiency. In short, Transmutation is changing one thing into another thing, entirely. To "transmute" something means to alter its nature. Changing a liquid into a solid. Taking ideas from notes to action. Transmutation allows us to change emotions or states of feeling into other things. On a vibrational, energetic level,

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country... ...Unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work." --- from Walden Pond, by Henry David Thoreau Our beloved English word "damned" carries alot of weight. The very word itself is a curse. In English, it means "c

" I climbed across the mountaintops, Swam all across the ocean blue. I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules, but baby, I broke them all for you. But these stories don't mean anything when you've got no one to tell them to, It's true...I was made for you." --- The Story, Brandi Carlisle A silo refers to a vertical storage system, usually for grain or such. In a silo, grain, for instance, is stored vertically in its own space, without being mixed or combined with oth

This is about honesty and narcissism in relationships. Hindsight is always 20/20. Verse 1- Spin the tale of the phony romance. Shuck & jive till you’re blue in the face. It’s a matter of the utmost importance- Another blue-eyed basket case. So tell the sage what you’re thinking, Baby, And if you think you’re alright. Chorus- I know where you’re going with this. (And I can tell you I don’t like it). I can see where you’re headed. (And I can tell you I can’t take it). You k

A bar-stool ballad written about a night on 2nd Avenue in downtown Nashville. I used to play at a little bar called the 2nd Ave Dry Goods. This was written and initially recorded live on stage in approximately 1993. This version was recorded in my home studio in 1999. All instruments and vocals are mine. Verse 1- G C A smoky barroom scene, therapy for the patrons. G C D The an

"So come out of your cave walking on your hands, and see the world hanging upside down. You can understand dependence when you know the Maker's mind." --- The Cave, by Mumford & Sons I have always enjoyed sociology. But for people's daily bullshit, I would've made a good sociologist. Where psychology is "nature", sociology is "nurture". Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist who redefined how the modern era views power, social hierarchy, and the "invisible" ways in which so

I live in an RV with my dog Cooper. It's an experience, if you've never done it: living in an RV with an animal. I've never been so intimately familiar with the smacky-sucky-sounds, the yeasty-musky-smells, and Twister-esque yoga positions of dog grooming that all pretzelize the animal until it's nose and tongue-tip are at least 4 inches inside it's own anus. Let's say it will test your patience. And that's the point. It "tests your patience". In other words, it tests the ext

The Old Dutch word "spellen", as the English/Germanic word "spell"that replaced it, is a verb. It evolved from the Old French "espelier". The word means to make words one letter at a time. Literally, the process of forming words and speech. As Mankind learned and evolved in our use of language, patterns emerged. We learned that certain frequencies of spoken or hummed sounds or words had biological and spiritual effects. We learned and were taught that our own voice box is an

"Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor falls, the major lifts...... The baffled king composing Hallelujah..." - Leonard Cohen If YOU were an Annunaki Prince and had decided to, at some point in the future, join your conscious spirit to a new-born human soul, and you sat down to

“I am He!” (John 18:6-8) These words in a darkened, enshadowed Gethsemene Garden mark a turning point in the killing of the Christ. Before those words on that day, Jesus of Nazareth prepared his people for his death and all that would follow, in sadness and humility. After those words, as his murderers demanded his account, that man was Jesus of Nazareth in name only. He became something more…divine…more...“I’m not to be trifled with”, in attitude towards those around him, wi

The Lord's Prayer in Christianity’s Bible has 66 words. Full English translations of the original Aramaic lord's prayer stretch upwards of 120 words. Why? Because Aramaic is a complex, textured language that often takes 3-6 English words, if not a phrase, to fully convey meaning from a single Aramaic word. In other words, the prayer has been shortened through translation over the years. Several scholars such as Neil Douglas-Klotz over the years have attempted to re-interpret

We really do complicate things, Kids. Simplicity is sometimes difficult to find. With a rare moment of mental clarity, please allow me to make it all very simple for you: You will only ever make one choice in life. True story. There is really just one choice. So I guess that is good news. Maybe tell us what the choice is? Of course… In this moment, do I loop or do I ascend? No matter how small or tiny and no matter how significant or extraordinary, all decisions reduce down

The Lord’s Prayer is spoken as a Prince to his Father and King. Literally. Enki, as Jesus, as the Son of Man (which is a term of wonder ONLY if you aren’t human). Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth…as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses Even as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us NOT into temptation, but deliver us from evil… For thine is the kingdom, the

It always bothered me how we call God, God. Why do we do that? “God” isn’t a proper name. It’s barely a title. Really, it’s more of a category. It’s as though we spend our lives looking for a long-lost father named Man. How can we claim a personal God with no name? I understand the naming of Jesus as the naming of the earthly manifestation of a particular being, in my view, that we refer to as “God”. Ok, we can name that version of God, but what is the real name of the actua

In olden times, basic tonics such as these were used to treat all manner of ills. Also makes a damn good vinaigrette for your salad. Version 1- Daily Swig 1 cup Apple Cider Vinegar (With the Mother) 1 cup raw local honey 1 cup extra virgin Olive Oil 2 tblspns Lemon juice 1 tblspn pepper 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 6” sprigs Rosemary Version 2- Hard Medicine 1 cup White Lightning Moonshine (or any hard clear liquor) 1 cup raw local honey 1 tbsp crushed ginger Half cup Lemon juice

This is another thought exercise to see if identities within a worldview can be changed or altered without damaging the underlying actionable narrative. In the Garden of Eden, identities matter. So, let’s get into it. Enlil the Righteous Judge. The Intolerant Destroyer. In myth and lore, Enlil is the God of Wind, Air, Earth, and Storms. He is Zeus’s lightning bolt, Thor’s Hammer, the Bringer of Floods, The Tormentor of Egyptian Pharaohs. Enlil is known throughout the Old Test