It’s kind of Christmassy, but it doesn’t have to be — In Music and Stars Halfway to Somewhere When cottages dot the land again, beneath the snow and stars, and sheep and shepherds can begin to hear those old guitars… The sweet and peaceful melodies, the voices joined as one, beyond the angry rebel yells, communities undone… When love and peace…

A Poem Inspired by David Foster Wallace’s Speech Sort Of If you’re in a big hurry for that poem, you can scroll down towards the bottom. The context, at least mine, is in the next few paragraphs. About Our Stories… Sadly, or fortunately, the promise of the Leisure-and-Pleasure-Seeking Jetsons came through mostly as…

Wally Sort Of Says What A Lot Of Us Sort Of Think — It’s important to remember that Rhettie and Wally are not a couple, they’re more like colleagues on a mission. And Wally is a professional persuader, in his own self-deprecating words, while Rhettie has some difficulty with the potential creepiness of that, since she never knows where she stands, or where…

M.O.O. seems fitting. It’s all starting to sound alike. — Maybe I need to adjust my feed. That’s kind of funny. (Non-grass-fed cows eat “feed”) Okay, I’m exaggerating when I say “all,” but it did make me wonder about some related mechanisms we humans have — which involve our sense of salience and sensed need to decide. We aren’t capable…

A Potentially Useful Twist on Themes — Weird Opening, I Know: When I was very young, maybe five or six, I saw a preview of a Twilight Zone episode, a rerun and a classic I’ve since learned, and it has stuck in my mind ever since. I only ever saw that clip, but I never forgot the…

Part 2 of their big question regarding noses and toes — The last stanza of What Might Make Us Be In Love from Part 1 …it’s not Life that hardens you and buries care for True… and Good, and Beautiful, and Whole, it’s what you buy the tickets to. The Big Question For Rhettie But was Rhettie ready for the misunderstandings and pushback they could get…

It’s probably not what you think, but it’s similar, sort of… — I don’t read a lot of “patriotic” stuff. None really. But I needed something from Audible, and I didn’t want to use my credits, so I perused the free items. I ran across The Federalist Papers, which would be around sixteen hours — perfect. …

Just one of the super synergistic ingredients of The 7th Pie Peace — If you’re like me, you might be wondering if it should be called The 7th Pie Peace — or The 7th Pie Piece. If you’re even more like me, you might be a little annoyed in hearing that either work and are okay. Stu and Allie (shown above) claim both…

Just one of the super synergistic ingredients of The 7th Pie Peace — If you’re like me, you might be wondering if it should be called The 7th Pie Peace — or The 7th Pie Piece. If you’re even more like me, you might be a little annoyed in hearing that either work and are okay. Stu and Allie (shown above) claim both…