Tag: Ink
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The Primordial Ooze
The Primordial Ooze darkness is growingand I’m oldso what to doone thing onlyfight the growing darkstrike a sparka match a candlelight a bonfire spark it whereverthe tinder liesmake daily choicesthat brightennot darkenour collectivefutures don’t be deceivedall actions have impactsmostly somewhere in betweenever brighter futuresand dystopian dreamsdark superstitionsreverse evolutionsliding backinto the primordialooze –LE – 2/11/26
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Big Rock-candy Mountain
Big Rock-candy Mountain I’m sure you believethose things youclaim toaspire tocling to It’s alltoo fancifultoo incredible to meas the folk taleof the big rock-candy mountain –LE
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Words Are Spells
And now, let’s return to a topic I’ve broached before, Mages and Sorcery, based on words and their usage, the power behind Sepians’ rise. Words Are Spells from their beginningswords painted mental imagesdirected actionsmanipulated emotions since primal beginningsmany languages were bornlived and diedno longer spoken nor replied and now, new words addedsome transformed, reinventedwhile others…
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Bonsai
Bonsai Miniature treesTrained and pruned with a simpleTree-ness plainly seen Ornamental shrubsTrained and pruned to look like treesSerenity hums A simple imageForms in a receptive mindCalms the storms inside –LE These Bonsai were on display at the Franklin Conservatory in Columbus, OH… Pictures were taken with my Galaxy 5G phone. –LE
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Water Reclamation
Two types of water reclamation in Tucson, Solar and Wetlands… Solar Water Reclamation Sparklingreclaimed waterslowly flows northin the edge ofthe otherwisedry lowerSanta Cruzthen to theGila and eventuallythe Colorado sun glares offacres ofsolar arraypoweringthe reclaimingengines disgorging thereclaimedreconstitutedamniotic fluidof life as predatorand preyobserve fromshadow-gorgedhidey-holes andshade-camouflagedcreviced walls and I stareat the arraywonderinghow it gotthis way dry riverbedspoisoned blue…
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Mortality Meditation
This is an old one, but in light of recent conversations, I thought to clarify my thinking on the matter…a bit… Though, others’ speculations are just as likely as mine – 1/14/26…; -) Mortality Meditation The older I get, the more I seem to consider the end of my journeys around old Sol, especially when…
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Irony Of Ironies
Irony of Ironies sometimes it’s all too tiringfacts and opinionsbeliefs and conditioningpropaganda commercialsinternal dilemmacognitive dissonance sometimes it’s all toopedantic toosemantic toocerebral or tooemotional to appreciatethe irony of it all survival depends oncooperation of the wholebrains and heartsindividual and communityhumanity and our ecologyless humankind ends alone and forgottenin burned-out remnantsof abundance of ouronce high civilizationirony of…
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Another Memoir Memory
Another Memoir Memory Back in Oberlin (well, Russia Township, just outside of Oberlin), after my first wife left, taking our two children with her, I bought a 350 Honda motorcycle from a friend at work (US Steel at the time), who had been an apprentice machinist with me. He had extended the front fork and…
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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…