A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post, “Walmart Greeter Buys 6-Pack of Beer & Is Condemned”, that touched (pinched) a few nerves. It is becoming, it seems, more and more acceptable to flog the poor for their perceived failings and abuses, while at the same time the capricious excesses of the rich are [...]
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1. No one escapes social conditioning. It doesn’t matter how smart, rebellious, thoughtful, analytical, spiritual, or self-aware we are. The wires of our beings were plugged into society on the day we were born. Beyond learning the essentials (good/bad, right/wrong) we absorbed systems, paths, and hierarchies. We took in hope, promises, success, and shame. We watched [...]
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(A Sort Of, Kind Of Tongue-in-Cheek Post) Nearly all my life I’ve been told that I’m a glass half-full person. I don’t see it that way. The glass is as full or empty as it is, but if there’s a hole in it that’s causing water to spill all over the floor, I’m going to [...]
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“They shouldn’t enjoy the same privileges that other people do, even in paltry amounts.” “They shouldn’t have TV’s, cable, computers, cell phones or any other unnecessary thing.” “There should be more laws to curtail their enjoyments and punish their irresponsibility.” This kind of frequently repeated and often angry speech isn’t about prisoners, but about poor [...]
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My online friend Charlie O’Hay had this to say about writing the other day: “I view writing the way prisoners view tunnels. It is a way out, or more properly, a way through. It is the chipping away of obstacles. It is the smuggling of spirit through earth. It is work best done alone. It [...]
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I’m not a different person than I was when I set off on my road trip three years ago, but I am a much changed one. The changes didn’t happen all at once and each of them came in their own time, in their own ways. Some were so quiet that I didn’t realize I’d [...]
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