Category Archives: make your own world

Pieces of a Puzzle

The crisis before us is the culmination of a 500-year global rampage of conquering, plundering, exploiting, and polluting the earth— as well as killing by Europeans and Euro-Americans of the indigenous communities that stood in their way. The technical and … Continue reading

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Georgia O’Keeffe Talks About Art and Being an Artist.

Georgia O’Keeffe was such a simple beautiful individual. Her images are full of life and nature and glory of being. I love the genuinely innocent way she talks about her work. She was able to keep her childlike nature throughout … Continue reading

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Fifty Shades of Hell

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a celebration of the sadism that dominates nearly every aspect of American culture and lies at the core of pornography and global capitalism. It glorifies our dehumanization of women. It … Continue reading

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Not Exactly NaNoWriMo

Every November for the last 5 years I have attempted to write a novel. I have succeeded once. I am still struggling to put this cumbersome piece of fiction into some kind of publishable order. I sat down in front … Continue reading

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Thinking Through the Noise

I was just thinking, that life gives us opportunities to respond to it. Technology can help us, but it cannot provide the inspiration for our moment to moment existence. We must each as individuals find ways to respond to each … Continue reading

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