The arrogance of youth… / The world is not a machine for generating fairness; / Other people especially not so. / / / If you want to drain everything out of your life? / You are no king or aristocrat: / Your life will never be filled with people dedicated to your happiness. […]
Tag: writing
Very Small Ocean Flyers
In 2025, Solar & Clean Power met all demand growth while fossil electricity stayed flat. Fossil exports in mid-2026 are paralyzed on 4 seas & in Russia, while China rolls out EVs (electric vehicles) & renewables at massive scales. Climate Victory is Possible. But Climate Change presents a less talked-about problem: the threat to Ocean Oxygen. Seawater only contains 6-10 mg/kg of molecular oxygen, O2, compared to 210,000 mg/kg in the air.
Only 2 Hands – A guided meditation as a poem
[…] I only have one lifetime in this form, / this form with two feet, / this form with two hands, / this form with one voice, / this form with this mind, / the moss goes on without me. / The ants go on without me. / The trees go on without me. / The sun burns on without me. […]
VerySmallOcean.org and Life Updates
Updating verysmallocean.org is actually quite a bit of work. Today, I removed the old featured off-site content from every page and moved them to the suggested media and suggested reads pages, moved the 2024 blog posts to their own page and updated all the links to reflect that, updated the footers, added the table of […]
Bits & Pieces
143-2 days sober. Did not have a good time in those two days. But it’s all feeling kinda ‘what’s the point?’ even now. Had to stop the new medication that really amped up the ‘what’s the point?’ feelings. I guess… no pill for the adhd is availabe for me yet; i’ll try the strattera but […]
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…”.
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 […]
Song / Words, that Stick in your Head
Meditate on it — /
New words will come /
Take your time, don’t rush /
But what if /
like a stuck song /
they don’t? / / /
You are forced /
to work with /
what you have’/
and proceed /
from there.
Scattershot Prompted Poem
A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Atemporal Pisky Topologies, Simple – Non-Representational Poetry
Reposting this because I wanted to make a page for it in Evergreen Posts and because I thought the picture it was with was sub-par. “On top of the questions, seeing what fresh hell was upon them, they noticed that what had been one was many, and what had been uncut was now hashed….”
Lost in Mist 