Category: ShortStory
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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Brain-numbing Mendacity
I wrote this awhile ago, but in light of recent history, it feels more appropriate than ever. Brain-numbing Mendacity utter mendacityup is downdown is upin is out andout is in you going to believeyour own eyes and earslisten to your own feelingsor what our owners andtheir lickspittles tell you victims are the predatorsthe predators are…
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Last Sumday In December Morning Ride
Last Sunday In December – Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop rode out under a bright December morning skyafter 3 days of off and on again yin-rainthe river and washes were dry desert Marigolds’ bright yellow bloomsshouldered the path in a few swathsand two small contrails marked the blue aboveone heading south, looking like a…
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Survival Of The Fittest?
Survival of the Fittest? There’s not enough to go around,so we’ve been constantly told, and thus solda bill of goods that profit theself-proclaimed, privileged few. Who, living in obscene opulence, stolenfrom wage slaves and the poor, subsidizedby governments, their cronies in power,enabled by want-to-be entitled elitists of all stripes. Mandarins of the status-quo dismiss the…
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We Are All Philosophers
We Are All Philosophers I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’. I liken it to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core being optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful, which is encased in hardened and finely honed cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social junk (BS). The thing about…
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson 12/26/25
There were only three of us walking the line at the Ajo gate for the shift change (6:30am-8:30am) for the Tucson VA. The traffic was lighter today than usual, and not just because of the holiday. The VA has not been filling critical positions for a while now and has laid off many for “efficiency”…
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Snowblind
An old one from my time in the frozen north…; -) Snowblind Snowblind in sunshine,dark barky spines protruding,sparrow-buds in bloom. –LE – circa 1998
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Season’s Greetings
Happy Solstice – Happy Yule – Merry Christmas… In this season of light regaining assendence over darkness, of the rotation of the seasons, the resurgence of new life across our nothern hemisphere, may you all find peace, love, and grace in your celebrations and commitments, in all your dealings and relationships. –LE
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For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge
Here’s an older one that sums up parts of my misguided youth… My memoir covers this portion of my life in more detail…; -) For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge ‘Something’s happening here…’ Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals ‘What it is ain’t exactly clear…’…
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That Depends…
Are you a good judge of character? In my youth and young adulthood? Definitely not; two failed marriages, religious cult associations, and near lifestyle induced death would seem to indicate. In my current phase of life, I’ve been much better at it, as my nearly 30-year relationship with my current partner and my small but…
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