Cause of death does not mean that one caused death; a version of events may be factually incorrect but still be true — Two items in the NPR article I read jumped out at me. First: “If any one of these three people — Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls — had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today,” said Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor appointed by Carmack-Altwies. “It’s that…

These archetypes will help me create a new life in my octopus’s oasis marooned at times alone under a sea of humanity — Stream of Consciousness Introduction Friends, followers, and subscribers, hello, it’s me! I’m back again. I linked the Todd Rundgren song because as I began to draft the intro to this essay in my mind, I thought of these lyrics and got goosebumps and a little teary-eyed: Hello, it’s me I’ve thought about us for a…

My thoughts on the Oscar Wilde quote: To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Hello friends, followers, and subscribers. Some of you have noticed my disengagement from the platform. I became too attached to the social media aspects of Medium and this became a net energy drain and I made a not conscious decision to pull away. You may be wondering, what is a…

I’d like to share my and hear your thoughts on acceptance — Wow, the contents of that feature image have thrown me for a bit of a loop. As I embarked on the journey to create this prompt, I knew that the word acceptance has several definitions and can mean many different things to many people and that even one person can…

Two poems and a short essay together answering that souls miss being human — This piece starts with a rondeau. The title of a rondeau forms part of the poem. The title serves as a non-rhyming refrain in the approximate octet end-rhyming scheme of AABBA AABR AABBAR and I like how it allows me to use the title/refrain to ask a question, which I…

Ricky Gervais’s “After Life” displays much spirituality through the eyes and words of atheists — It intrigued me when my dear friend and non-romantic (at least in this lifecycle) soulmate LM suggested that I watch the series After Life because LL (not a typo — an inside reference) said it displays much well written spirituality from the atheist perspective, which I most assuredly am not…

Prompt 1 courtesy of Rudyard Kipling and the 2nd prompt takes the format of some of Ravyne’s daily specials of yesteryear — I find that Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, which I recall hearing for the first time three years ago when my brother-in-law read it to his twin son and daughter at their achieving B'nai Mitzvah in Israel in March 2019 (because his father had hung it in their finished basement growing…

I won’t but I attempt to convey my understanding of God in response to that question from a KTHT reader and writer — I think I shall start this post with a poem that as I type I have barely begun to create beyond the notion that Cendrine Marrouat’s vardhaku form, which I discovered as an editor in Ravyne Hawke’s pub Promptly Written, lends itself nicely to what we have in mind, but…