Reinventing Myself

 It’s been quite a shock at my age to discover that the values I’ve lived by all these years are...

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

- William Blake

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part II

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part II

  Read Part I HERE   The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.   Suddenly, I found myself surrounded by people I did not know.  The room was no different than any room in middle class America, white walls with a few framed prints, sparsely...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca

  In northern Mexico they work.  In central Mexico they think.  In southern Mexico they rest.   She was travelling to Oaxaca for her two-year old goddaughter's birthday.  Chocolate cupcakes and a wrapped present were in the carry on.  Her eyes laughed as the...

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Political Antinomians

Political Antinomians

Snopes.com   [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information]   “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.”  John “Rabbi” Duncan   In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...

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Was It Really That Wild?

Was It Really That Wild?

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   After getting you to give us a freebie glass of wine, napkin art picked up.. a few months later I got the Art Center to give us a room for a cartooning seminar, I got an easel with a large drawing...

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Coincidence Or Business As Usual

Coincidence Or Business As Usual

[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]     They’re back in the news again.  All three.  At the same time.  Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...

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The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...

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The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today

The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?   Mark 8:36   "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...

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Laughter

Laughter

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   I hate scarce smiles, I love laughing. William Blake annotations to Aphorisms on Man by Johann Caspar Lavater   Several have defined man as "an animal which laughs." Henri Bergson, Laughter...

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Character

Character

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   You have character.  You can be a character.  You can create a character, build character or engage in character assassination.  There are characters in real life, characters in novels.  They can be...

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The Art of Empty Spaces

The Art of Empty Spaces

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   On the Paseo de la Reforma, that grand avenue simulating the entrance to an imperial Mexico City that of course no longer exists, there’s a quadrangle of tiny absences, small plazas, where once there...

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Easter Thoughts

Easter Thoughts

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]     If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. John Maynard Keynes   Keynes, the famous economist,...

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