A Note From the Planet
Balance / Nature / Nature-based thoughts on balance, literature, and other rants

A Note From the Planet

Hello, it’s me…your planet. I usually stay out of your politics, but things have gotten so out of hand I feel the need to communicate with you directly. My usual methods of talking to you symbolically through exploding symptoms (in the same way your body signals you with health symptoms), don’t seem to be getting … Continue reading

Laughing Bird Mountain
Nature

Laughing Bird Mountain

I’m hiking up the McDowell Mountains this morning as the sun wakes up, trying to clear my head after mistakenly watching the ugliness of the morning news.  Nothing but hate, controversy, possible corruptness, childishness, you name it.  Being a couple of miles east of Scottsdale, AZ, the mountains repose in peaceful tranquility except for a … Continue reading

The Missing Issue
Balance / Nature

The Missing Issue

Picture representing last night’s speech So at a time of melting glaciers and ice caps (those well-placed freezers that help keep us cool in the temperate middle), acidic and warming oceans, sea levels on the rise, coral reefs turning brittle and dying, depleted fish populations, global forest fires, dwindling fresh water supplies, unprecedented species annihilation, … Continue reading

XXX Fruit
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XXX Fruit

I’m tired of all the games played by fruit, fooling us into thinking they’re ripe.  Except for bananas.  Personally I get along with bananas pretty well.  If only other fruits would develop spots. My main struggle is trying to determine when my fruit has had enough foreplay and is ready for action.  Some seem so … Continue reading

Self-Expression, Self-Absorption, Self-Consciousness, Self-Diatribes, Self-Publishing, the Lowly Self
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Self-Expression, Self-Absorption, Self-Consciousness, Self-Diatribes, Self-Publishing, the Lowly Self

  I’ve been tempted to deprive this blog of sustenance and let it die a horribly sadistic death.   It’s a thief of time, of more serious writing, and though it’s a fun creative outlet, it often feels as if it is a monument to my self-centeredness. Maybe this is just my issue, having been that vanquished … Continue reading

Unwavering
Fiction

Unwavering

This is an old story.  Originally it was a flash fiction piece before being slightly expanded.  I had fun with the language but it doesn’t fit in with where I am at currently, so I’m publishing it here since I’m not trying to do so elsewhere.   Knowing the air around Joe had always been contaminated, … Continue reading