In one of the Rush Hour out-takes ( scenes that didn’t make the grade only to be shown at the end when credits roll up), Jackie Chan, instead of saying “Freeze”, says “Cheese”. We might consider the option of freezing where we are at this point in history. That way, all of the recurring shootings,…

We’ve got hurricanes, fire and flood. We’ve got volcanic eruption, nuclear power plant meltdown, sea-water rising, record-breaking heat and freezing temperatures. We suffer, for our comfort and convenience (at other times). The price is right. Over consumption (supersizing of everything), overstaying our welcome on Earth and overspent. The price is right. We’ve picked up bad…

You who inundated the airwaves, the screen, the internet, the crammed ads, the fake news and fake boobs. You who pop up, pop in and out of our lives, uninvited and unannounced. Did we ask for you? Invite you? Allow you to dominate our finite attention span? We’re numbed, one ad, one headline at a…

Keep zooming out. More, more, more. See it? The Greek civilization. Rome and all its glory. England, China and much later the US, CANADA and ROW as seen now. People love, hate and divorce. Kids abandoned, adopted and alienated. Generations after generations. (personal) History repeats itself. In a cycle of self-destruction. It’s either self-inflation or…

Get pushed from behind. Driving while looking in the rear-view mirror. Life itself. Ever since. No choice. No say. Born NOT to pause, but to run. Toward God knows where. But run, we do. We do it well, without thinking, without giving it a single thought. No Pause. No Reset. Those steps are for machine.…

That’s what we see in the news these days: weather-related content. The heat dome, rare summer breeze and gathering storm. We have had a lot of warning signs. Signs that say, behave! I can come with forces much greater than yours. Ironically, with so serious a subject like Nuclear Fission, we’ve got Barbillion (new combined…

Chapter seventeen of Ralph Ellison‘s 1952 novel Invisible Man includes a literary device related to the Saul to Paul conversion: “‘You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a young gun, you Saul, but let life whip your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you…

That’s the title, the sentiment and the undertow. Not just the broken system, but individual as well. I couldn’t buy a cough medicine without the intervention of a “cashier” (we ‘re de facto cashiers in our new era of pro-sumersim). Fentanyl at the individual level, fantasy at system level. Why the trend toward Far Right?…

Moment is more “eternal”. One cherishes those moments in time, in memory. Minutes are important, but quite artificial. Minutes were associated with clocking , with our mechanical society: keeping the train on schedule (as we can all attest to travel delay, with all the computers in the world, we are still stuck in airports with…

It’s Sunday. It is forecasted to be 106 here in town. I understand and have endured cold weather. But this, this record heat, is certifiably unprecedented. What if I – we – don’t live on to see the Heat Waves subside? Brief life we have lived. Never enough time to finish that song, that book…