Category: ShortStory
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Too Many Times To Count
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Yes, and while I enjoyed the performing (locally, off and on for about 15 years), I ended up hating the ‘business’ aspects of performing (managers, bookings, marketing) and the whole ‘music scene’ of those times. I’ve also read some of my verses at different poetry…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/12/25
There were only 3 of us out this morning at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the shift change. We arrived at 6:30 AM and left at 8:30. It was pretty chilly, both temperature and responses, at least at first. But responses picked up pretty quickly to about the same as last week’s. And only…
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)by Tina Turner Out of the ruinsOut from the wreckageCan’t make the same mistake this timeWe are the childrenThe last generationWe are the ones they left behind And I wonder when we are ever gonna changeLiving under the fear ’til nothing else remains We don’t need another heroWe don’t need…
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Any Gentle Activities
What are your favorite physical activities or exercises? There is a big difference in what I like now and what I thrived on in the past. I prefer walking, riding my recumbent, Tai Chi, gentle yoga, and a little archery. In the past, I loved working out for 2-3 hours in Judo (was a turnament…
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Collective Consciousness
Collective Consciousness according to early psychologistswe are all attached in auniversal unconsciousness but what if it’s not unconsciousbut perspectives of the sameconsciousness pervading all the entire universe a universe of layers and perspectivesfrom so-called ‘matter’consciousness limited and basic to so-called sentientswith more complicated perspectivesmore self-aware perspectives of the conscious universemorality but a means of controlone…
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Creative ‘Solutions’
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? What I admire is the creative solutions people find for our daily trials, troubles, and tribulations… While some are much better solutions than others (pragmaticly), I applaud everyones’ creative attempts … often, the only ‘sanity’ evident in our insane social constructs, castes, classes, hierarchies of injustice…
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Cartoonish…
What’s your favorite cartoon? My favorite(?) cartoon is the one I witness daily… ‘modern life on planet earth’… Yes, I know, I’m supposed to take our zeitgeist seriously, but when I look at the ridiculousness of our daily lives in this ‘modern world’, I can’t help but chuckle (that is, when I’m not feeling just…
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Two – Dimensional Me
Two – Dimensional Me the lamp cast meon the wallin two dimensionsa perfect silhouette as I turned tolook at meI turned and gazedback at myself I wondered whatmy other self seesimitating my every moveperfectly though sometimesin distorted perspectivesdependant on light sourceand surface juxtapositions my 3-d self a divinityto 2-d me?moral and just ordark and evil?…
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Cool December Morning
Cool December Morning cool and clearmorning in Decemberpristine skyreflects the deepblue sea as luminousBrittlebush blossomsseem to float onthe desert’s parched andcaliche-strewn lees no wild animalsout todaynone want to be‘the preyof the day’ and neither do I –LE – 12/7/25
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Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death
Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death in my youthMorpheus wasmy companion and friendjustice, my main complaintthat is, whatever didn’tgo my way later, Fate and Deathbecame playerssitting opposite meat life’s game-boardchallenging, complicatingmy every move now, Fate and Deathhave become beautiful sirensgently smiling facesbeckon me to lie downin their sweetlanguid embraces I’m old enough nowlived more…
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