Category Archives: Prose

I am in constant awe at the continual recalibration of our moral compass to serve whatever fragile narrative we are pledged to support. From “hoax” to hubris to a rushed, unprepared, ill-advised reopening, this pandemic has been universally mismanaged by nearly every elected official up and down the hierarchy. Numbly posting numbers devoid of humanityContinue reading “From Hoax to Hubris”

Watching the events of this past week unfold has stirred many emotions in me. In particular the encounters between protestors and riot control officers has reminded me of my own experience with crowd control, albeit from the other side of the wire. Back in mid September 1994, in the waning years of my Marine CorpsContinue reading “Observations from the Other Side of the Wire”

It seems with increasing frequency that we the casual scrollers of the feed are subjected to a steady stream of home cooked conspiracy theories ranging from the plausible to the gratuitously absurd. The overshared viral sensation “Plandemic” is just the most recent entry in line for the Tinfoil Hat Society of America’s coveted Bug ShitContinue reading “Living Fiction”

In the midst of an unprecedented business slowdown that has the potential to undo what took me 5 years to build, I’ve been forced to alter my approach to the workday in a small, yet significant way. Even as I’ve committed to adapting my business for survival there is significantly less for me to doContinue reading “Zen of the Unhurried”

OK, that’s one way to start the day. I just had an encounter with an irate homeless man who chose my office property to come unglued. From my 2nd floor window I witnessed him come down street, tear up flower beds all awhile yelling “fuck this, fuck that”. Figuring he was just having a badContinue reading “Chaos From Within”

The meaning of life is in the moment. Stop looking far and wide,  beneath stones, around the next corner or deep in your memories. Stop combing the minutia of experience for significance, the sole purpose for being is found right here in this very moment and nothing more. Whatever it is you are doing atContinue reading “The Moment”

For anyone genuinely perplexed by the chaos swirling around this current global crisis and left wondering why we all can’t just chill out despite the  preponderance of of evidence to the contrary I ask you to simply consider this: Nervousness and overabundance of caution are in our very nature. Early man developed a fear ofContinue reading “Scared by Design”

Any meaning we ascribe to life is purely self-aggrandizing and woefully ephemeral. The wider our vision grows the smaller and less significant we become until ultimately we dissolve into cosmic dust motes drifting endlessly on currents of time. Against the backdrop of the infinite our existence is beyond inconsequential and approaches zero.  A single bitContinue reading “Quantum Pixel Bit”

Let’s just do away with the notion that we give two shits about the well being of our fellow human. We are well beyond the point of “put up or shut up” and now reside squarely in the dominion of denial. Atrocities continue to pile up at the alter of power with increasing frequency whileContinue reading “Apoplexatic”