If we’re all thinking the same things and using the same uninspired and unexamined language, then no one is thinking at all — and that’s dangerous.
Recently I began listening to the world through a filter I was calling originality, but it took a bad turn: originality was hard to…
It’s not The COVID-19 New World Order, The Trumpian Epoch, or the Time of I-Thing— “Random” is the word of the decade for a reason.
The reckless, impassioned romanticism of Canadian rocker Neil Young’s line It’s better to burn out than fade away is irresistible to a certain type of person. The line appears in two versions of a song on the 1979 album RUST NEVER SLEEPS — itself a title for the ages, a…
There are 60+ words for snow at the poles. English has 200+ words for intoxication, and we’re getting close to that in describing mendacity — the art of lying. A rumination on truth, and a fitting farewell to our mendacious president, whose last mendacity has surely been his most audacious.
Theatrics and Hidden Truths
‘Ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the the odor of mendacity,’ Big Daddy drawls in Tennessee Williams’ Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, the word lingering in the still air that passes for an oxygen supply to the three desperate characters gathered in Big Daddy’s Mississippi plantation home on this 1950s…
‘Something Like The Truth’, Vol. 1 #2: The world is a strange and wondrous place, and here are small insights meant to capture some of its abstract mystery — to be followed up soon.
Some look out to the world and see themselves; others look inside to see the world.
POLITICS IS WHAT’S LEFT AFTER EVERYTHING REAL IS STRIPPED AWAY.
Love Andrea, he's my new favorite to follow. Couldn't agree more, I responded directly to one writer who really went off on the winner as I felt it got personal and there were a bunch of others chiming in with full-blown articles on a Medium conspiracy to use the contest…
JUST GIMME SOME TRUTH!
David: This piece is ungracious and adds nothing to the community of writers. It is sarcastic and catty and the imaginary conversation between the author and the other character is a tired literary convention. Randi Ragan deserves better than that. Hey, I lost too, not even…
The heart monitor and soap dispenser situations blew me away. And it took Band-Aid this long to be in solidarity with their black colleagues? They didn't notice?
There was always a way out. When the pressure was on, I figured something out, or what I needed fell into my lap. But this was the big one, and as I started to despair, a voice on the radio told me just what I needed to hear ………. and the adventure began.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
Inspirational Obit-Lit and Death Discounts
I DIDN’T CONSIDER THAT I WOULD DIE until recently. I knew it was a possibility but didn’t give it much thought or allow it to provoke any kind of reaction in me; I didn’t even need to be…
This piece is strong and simple and describes the people I looked up to when I was young and trying to figure out how to be a man. I would ask myself, 'Why are they at the top of their game?' - it could be very different for different people…
Writer Bio
Stored up a lot in this old jukebox, a coupla coins may get you a few decades of stories
Writer’s Statement
David Mamet quoted Hemingway — You sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein and bleed — on the best days the writing is filled with blood and rage. The love and acceptance will come; I have felt its presence. But first there is blood.
I write creative non-fiction…
Donn K. Harris
CA Arts Council Chair 2015-18; led Ruth Asawa and Oakland Schools of the Arts, 2001–16; USAF vet; father of 2; PARADIGM SHIFTER, TRUTH SEEKER; tracesart.org
