The Pestilence of ‘Christian’ ‘Nationalism’

Steven Colbert reported Tuesday that there had been 110 grievances filed by military members stationed at dozens of places in the Middle East that commanders have told them that “President Trump is annointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth…”.

Permission

You have my permission to disregard the meditation I wrote and do something else: /// Like / Walk along the side of a stream endlessly / Like / Go through a laundry list of affirmations in your head, examining and discarding each one / Like / Planning your to do list / Like / Trying (and failing) to just watch your breath and think no thoughts / Like / Criticize yourself for doing the meditation all wrong [….]

Emptiness (and a grain of salt)

[…] One of the many things we could say instead of — /
— instead of “I hate my stupid life” /
Confronting a memory /
Confronting a hypothetical /
Confronting other peoples’ theoretical thoughts about us /
Confronting ‘what if I had done it that way instead?’ /
All these emotions come and go, passing like ships, or birds, swiftly by […]

Erasure / Replacement / Antithesis

From an exercise at writer’s group where the idea was to write twelve lines on a word/topic then remove the word and replace/rewrite. The topic found was the laws of nature. I split parts one and two in the middle: ‘Nature’ and ‘The Law’. With extra time, an antithesis appeared.

Realization / Review

Realized the other day that my bluetooth headphones with noise cancelling have three settings, not two. Let noise in, block all noise, and ‘block noise / enhance voice’!! So if you want to try eavesdropping […]. Goes nicely with this poem from adultolescence [pictured]

Method of Divining by Seashells Who is to Blame

[…] Pour the phial of anti-sense in the direct center and remember to regard the magnetic chirality of the Earth /
The glass will shatter /
Carefully tune the polarization refractors until the shards produce holographic rainbows /
Place three crushed sand dollars in a beaker of indigo in acetone /
Apply gentle heat to transmute […]

Easy Em Website Framework Lessons 1 & 2

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