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Notice The Small

I challenge you to notice something small today. Look around at the familiar and seek out a minor detail that has previously evaded you. Most of what we observe gets conveniently summarized in our minds, grouped, and cataloged for ease of consumption. The challenge is to find a needle amid a myriad of haystacks andContinue reading “Notice The Small”

Chasing Zero

In our never-ending quest for growth, we often overlook the relative peace found by achieving a state of equilibrium. We claw and scratch our way up until we reach such lofty heights that the only place to go is down. We inevitably crash deep in a well of heartache, left to wonder how we willContinue reading “Chasing Zero”

Syntropy

When observing the natural world, we must confront the physical limitations of entropy, where cause always precedes effect, where we can’t unscramble an egg, and where a broken teacup will not become magically unbroken. This perceptual limitation does not exist in our minds, where we are free to imagine the arrow of time flying inContinue reading “Syntropy”

The Stain Remains

So it appears in the endThat the swamp was much deeperPerhaps lies came easierSince words are so much cheaper He stepped right into the messWith zero intent to cleanDumping vials of vileness‘Til the smell grew too obscene The fetid, foul funk backed upBubbling in from parts unknownSeeping into every poreRotting us down to the boneContinue reading “The Stain Remains”

Across the Aisle

Right here and now at this place in time We come to a scene quite surreal Searching for somewhere to pin this crime With no care for how others may feel Sprung from bowels of misconception Awash in the pettifog of war Rung bells of intended deception At such levels never heard before And thereContinue reading “Across the Aisle”

The Cave

In the “Allegory of the Cave,” Plato describes a society that has spent their existence unknowingly imprisoned beneath the ground, with only the play of shadows across the walls providing content for their existence. They regard these shadows as absolute truth, never knowing there is a more tangible reality behind them. They spend their livesContinue reading “The Cave”

Bye Bye Tweety Turd

Your wings have now been clipped Your mouth now tightly closed It’s time to fade to black Your fraud’s now been exposed Your bully pulpit’s done Deplatformed front to back Your last incitement crashed As your scene fades to black Failed and fallen clown king A legacy disgraced Followers abandoned Leadership now replaced You playedContinue reading “Bye Bye Tweety Turd”

Burn the Candle at Each End

2020 was a shitty year On this, I think we can each agree Sadly this is where consensus ends Due largely to our dichotomy Skewed sharply by a vast division The red, the blue and sometimes the green Manifest tribal polarity Filling all the spaces in between Bleakly entrenched in our opinions Willing to loseContinue reading “Burn the Candle at Each End”

Anti-Claus

Christmastime, it seems to me, has become an increasingly melancholy holiday as of late. Despite my best intentions, the older I get, the deeper the ache seems to resonate. Perhaps it’s the weight of decades of exhausted anticipation, spent reverie, and cumulative disappointment that has taken its toll, resulting in a profound numbness that canContinue reading “Anti-Claus”

The Legend of Glowman

There once was a hero Or so the stories go That stood watch every night In freshly gathered snow Deep in my memories I can picture the place With the crab apple tree Cloaked in winter’s embrace Out there on the front yard ‘Neath blue incandescence Stood the mighty Glowman In bright luminescence I quiteContinue reading “The Legend of Glowman”