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Real Holes in Neverland

Edward Curtin

Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe...

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Nothing to Say, Ma

Diego Sandoval

As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we...

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Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears

Edward Curtin

“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me...

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A Plague of Saints

J R Leach

In the digital age, the incessant calls to action reverberate across the virtual landscape, summoning legions of fervent warriors...

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The Unexpected

Edward Curtin Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises...

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An Immense Hunger

Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger....

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Radical Dismissal

Todd Hayen Here’s another weird thing I think is going on. Like most things I observe, you have probably...

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Rock Piles

Sylvia Shawcross We didn’t go here before did we? Come with me now. It’s a sunny spring day. You...

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Have We Lost the Ability to Fall in Love?

Todd Hayen I really need everyone’s input on this one because it does scare me if it is true....

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So What?

Todd Hayen How many of you out there have experienced this? You are having a conversation with a normie...

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Injected Narcissism

Todd Hayen Along with mRNA coursing through our veins (probably not yours and definitely not mine) there is a...

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Waiting for an Apocalypse

Edward Curtin “Method, Method, what do you want from me? You know that I have eaten of the fruit of...

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Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In

Edward Curtin “A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning,...

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The Tyranny of Cause and Effect Scientism

Todd Hayen The rape of the natural world is the phallic-like invasion of scientism. With its intent to rip...

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Do People Change?

Edward Curtin Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world,...

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No one is crowing now

Sylvia Shawcross It is the first time the crows did not come in the morning. Under the red sun...

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Death by Pixels

Sylvia Shawcross I am living out my days in what once was a forested community but now a growing...

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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History

Edward Curtin “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have...

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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod

Edward Curtin We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is...

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There Is No Escape From Telling

Edward curtin By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped...

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