July 1st 2025 How shocking How shocking I love the grassroots movements of art, music and culture. Festivals have shocked the world. Woodstock is an example of counterculture for the boomer generation. The same generation reluctant to give up their entitlements to enable our youth a better future in 2025. Over this past weekend, we had Glastonbury in the UK. Claiming people are dangerous terrorists because they speak up against genocide is business as usual in many parts of the world,...
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June 30th 2025 Empires fall Empires fall It is the law of gravity. What goes up comes down. In these last desperate days for the US Empire, all the patterns of demise are there. Greedy, vainglorious rulers who spit on the ‘common’ people. Capture by big money blinded by their historical black gold rise to wealth, dinosaurs in lag. Holding countries hostage, bullying the tactic of choice. Increasing disparity between the haves and have-nots. Desperate acts of violence to sway rogue countries...
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June 29th 2025 A little Oasis in a storm A little Oasis in a storm Yesterday, we became proud parents to four chickens. We have a lovely big yard, surrounded by bush, so they can roam all day. My partner, Tony, built what I call the Taj Chickal, a very secure safe haven for our chickens to sleep and feed. Milly the dog, now deaf from age, was beside herself with excitement. At one point, we found her sitting guard after the chickens had gone to bed. Hopefully, in a few days, when the chickens...
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June 28th 2025 Pardoning corruption Pardoning corruption Oh how far we have fallen. One corrupt leader seeks to force another corrupt leader’s country to pardon him. The White House produces a video, surely a parody, of daddy returning home, after a European ‘leader’ puts Trump and daddy in the same sentence. The sycophancy of global ‘leaders’ to appease daddy is disgusting. Oh for brilliant humanity, where art thou? Yet people who have done nothing criminal except seek a better life, people...
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June 27th 2025 Grief too controversial to name Grief too controversial to name Wrote Waleed Shadid in an article about Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral nomination win in New Your City. Listening to voters whose grief is too controversial to name. The daily slaughter of Palestinians. Live streamed. But too controversial to speak about in America, the UK, Australia, Canada and Europe. Zohran spoke about this slaughter. He did so with a Jewish man, also running for Mayor, beside him, equally broken by...
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June 26th 2025 Liberty is at risk Liberty is at risk What is liberty? The condition of a free person; absence of restraint; permission to do and say. If we do not have the liberty to tell people, especially elected representatives, what they do not want to hear, do we have liberty? If we are policed for standing up for something power doesn’t like, do we have liberty? If we cannot protest peacefully, are we free? In these times, liberty is at risk. Even in my country, people are being...
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June 25th 2025 The Foundation of Everything I Do The foundation of everything I do There is a wonderful gift that comes with reaching a later stage of life. And that is to care less and less about what people think of you. At the same time, a clarity accelerates about who we really are, a fearlessness to be fully wholly ourselves. The following is the foundation of everything I do, no matter the form. Teach. Write. Befriend. Create. Bake. Love. Everything is anchored here. It is why I write...
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June 24th 2025 Naming truth Naming truth There is an art to removing extraneous words and naming the truth that lies beneath people’s actions, including ours. This is the meaning of the expression, ‘The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.’ What is the truth, using the fewest words, that cuts through the noise? When we hear these words, we exhale. Yes. This. This is it. To reach the truth that lies below the word salad, we might ask a series of questions. These questions...
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June 23rd 2025 Speaking Absolutes Speaking Absolutes Always. Never. Everyone. All. I hear a man stand on a public platform and claim that all of civilisation will be thankful for an egregious action taken in these last few days. All of civilisation. He does not speak for me. He has never spoken for me. The use of absolutes in almost all contexts is dangerous. It sets the scene for lies. For deception. Back in 2003, the world was told a giant lie by the leaders of the free world, none of whom...
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