What Crosses My Mind

  • The Politics of Humility

    It is no surprise that I am not a fan of our POTUS. Now, he is receiving accolades for his participation in the Gaza cease fire. I’m listening to him speak with his cabinet and a press corp, while he lauds himself in every other sentence.  I feel so torn and anxious with my personal…

  • On Stephen Colbert

    We recently received the news that Stephen Colbert has been cancelled. The highest rated late night show is being discontinued because of “financial issues.” This is hard to imagine given his show – Late Night With Stephen Colbert – is incredibly popular. Social media has taken to criticizing the move, people recognizing without a blink…

  • The Next Day

    That’s really how it feels sometimes. One day, I’m on top of the world, and the next just scratching the surface, feeling the grit inside my frame of mind, unable to process what was once like hang gliding in the atmosphere one beautiful fall afternoon. Then something happens in our world that cannot be denied.…

  • We Took A Beating Today

    I read the news, it was awful, filled up with views made me want to ‘manafort’   my breakfast, lunch and dinner, so I chose not to eat the garbage being spewed, drank clean water all day instead.   We watched a conservative rally, full arms and gusto no more of this sally way toward…

  • Life Is Not A Ploy

    Though there would be immediate disagreement in one, quiet satisfaction in another, in the final hour, one would realize if they did stop to glance, a world beyond their own device, would, might still exist, and in that social fabric ignored, a pain, a fighting soul whose rapture not found might emulate the sorrowful nature…

  • While We Wait We Witness

    A firestorm of controversy, life turned upside down, dangling in the clouds are the idealists, the true companions of our forgiveness.   On earth here in damp soil trodden upon by the masses there are children screaming parents crying siblings a wonder of just where it all belongs.   In the news today there’s noise…

  • Even The Brightest Might Second Guess

    Oh it is a travesty, to imagine we live in a society, so bent on coercive plurality, we have to think about our sanity.   How is it possible so many are duped forgotten are our principles, drawn inside a very large scoop.   I listened to the news last night, again, abhorrent, aghast, afoul,…

  • The Hypocrisy of Faith

    Steeped in idol trepidation, an iconic stature, a reasonably moral conclusion, yet, a stark reminder is when we choose to know our side.   Which side, whose side, why should we decide what favor we rely upon to gather strength, when choices made, become the standard bearer, the party favorite.   Words bandied about, tribalism,…

  • Episodic Rituals

    There are times when in my real life I cry, it is sudden, something I cannot control, watching the illusion of our reality, in the episodic nature of historical fiction, the retelling of the reality, we would all like to pretend is that fiction.   And yet, when I cry there are real tears, I…

  • I Have These Friends

    When they walk out the door, they have natural instincts, look over their shoulder, keep a skeptic eye, they constantly watch their step while they attend, make time to be in, express a similar value, as do I, when I go about living my regular, normal, daily life.   I have these friends, keep their…