Sunday, July 28, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Death Perception
Monday, July 22, 2024
Ancient Wisdom
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Old Man and the Shore
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Crack in the rock
crack in the Union
kraken sidney’s mind
crack in the Liberty Bell
Ring the bell of Liberty: Liberty and Justice for all, in America!
Let us not allow the maga cracks, nor the kraken, nor the trump rantings, to crack our United States of America! We are One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All!
Monday, July 15, 2024
I Stand Correcting
On the point of so-called “christian nationalism” being sucked into the current trump-fascist attempt to take over America, I stand correcting.
In the classic Parliamentary Procedure procedures, “I stand corrected” was a polite way of a member admitting that he was wrong about something that he/she had said earlier, perhaps in a debate, or whatever discussion my be taking place.
In our current American discussion, this centrist Constitutionalist takes issue with an irksome tendency of left-leaning critics to lump the teachings of Jesus Christ in with the current pandemic of trumpian fascism by which former “conservatives”, “Republicans” and “christians” are erroneously lumped in with donald trump and his proud brutes who attepted to mount an insurrection against the people of the United States and our government.
Read now, the actual principles brought forth by Jesus Christ:
“Blessed are the Peacemakers.” “Blessed are the meek (people), for they shall inherit the earth.” “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” “A good tree brings forth good fruit.”
“I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in. . . naked, and you clothed me . . .sick, and you visited me . . . in prison, and you came to see me. . . and inasmuch as you have done these things to one of the least of of my people, you have done it unto me.”
Now, considering those historic words of Jesus Christ, we can evaluate the credibility of politically-minded people who are, in their efforts to entrap our people into the abuses of trumpian “chris***n nationalism” have attempted to appropriate for themselves the mantle of religion, we can repeat Christ’s warning as stated in above, in the third paragraph of this point of correction.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
Bottom line: this Christian, Carey Rowland, who happens to be an American, is not willing to stand by and allow the ravening maga wolves to usurp the message of mercy and peace that Jesus Christ presented to the world.
All you trumpian magas can take your bull***t misappropriations of Christian faith and toss them in a port-o-potty somewhere.
Jesus was prescient when he said: “ The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, for the violent do take it by force.”
The contemporary manifestation of that dynamic would be: The government of our United States suffers violence, because the trumpy insurrectionists do attempt to take it by force.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Windows in Time
When you achieve 72 years, as I have, you find yourself gathering old memories that enrich, or inform, your exparience of this life.
I can remember a moment in time when I was on a plane and I caught a glimpse, for the first time, the Microsoft logo. Pretty clever, I thought—that little, colorful, waving window.
Today, on a Caribbean island, I caught a glimpse through a different kind of window . . . (pic)
. . . overlooking a beach on the island of St. John. This framed view presents a very different picture than the view through the Microsoft window.
The American territories of the 1600’s constituted the new frontier of an advancing world civilisation.
Centuries later, international explorers and sojourners had traipsed their way from Europe to America and westward to the Pacific coast, civilizing everything and everyone along the way.
In the 1950’s, inventors and innovators discovered, and developed, a way to digitize the world, so to speak.
Developing silicon semiconductors, transistors, and soldered, solid-state circuits, enterprising engineers, with a little help from their enterprising friends, presented new technologies through which the windows of this world could be viewed and manipulated and utilized.
As the new universe of tech evolved, Bill adopted the windows image to
promote Microsoft’s new presentation of this modernizing world.
Down the coast a ways, Steve and Steve in Silicon valley settled on a different image for their revolutionary work. Remembering, perhaps, all the way back to earliest days of human culture, when it had long ago been reported that a certain woman had suggested that her hubbie take a bit of the apple.
But getting back to the window thing, I saw this 400-year-old window today and it prompted all these musings about viewing the world through the windows of time.
I mean, if you think about it . . . looking through this old window presents a view of an island that is, I suppose, millions of years old.
So we notice that whatever is happening on this planet—has been going on for a long time.
Now sitting on the sand of this island, St. John, USVirginIslands, a fe minutes later, I am reminded of the historical person, St. John, companion of Jesus in Palestine/Israel, long ago.
And that John wrote about visions that he witnessed through the windows of prophetic awareness and revelations. And that window presents the most amazing view of all.
Revelation 5:9
Friday, July 12, 2024
Contemplating Rocks
Contemplating these rocks. . . these ancient boulders
those millions of years. . . those multi-layered strata of time.
I notice, as magasphere. . . tumbles down onto mini-island . . .
and many islands . . . as Magaspection crumbles. . . to minispection:
here. . . now, in my own space. . . my own time. . . me her now in
Time. . . whatever that is. . . as this civilized mind time-travels . . .
there he is on an island . . . methinks it is on Malta faraway, far back
in Time. . . whatever time is. . . on some Mediterranean shore
shaking off snakes. . . Paul of Tarsus. No. . . wait. . . not that Paul.
Methinks its the only-living-boy-in-New York-Paul. . . when the
New York Times said: God is dead. . . but (but it was only for
a couple of days, y’all) . . . anyway I was thinking of that other Paul:
“a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries” Paul (I remember, as
I sit in the water of this island). . . but the island speaks its mind
in sounds of silence. . . and the lapping of the cosmos . . .
on the shores of Time. . . these shores of rocks broken and cast down
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from the peaks of planetary history. . . the heights of planetary
accumulation tumbling to the waters below. . . as rocks tumbled
down long ago onto this shore, long ago. . . and yet still . . .
they tumble down to. . . where ocean defeats rock . . .in the
Sands of Time: rock, rock and more rock. . . long before Bo and
Chuck and Buddy and Elvis rocked around the clock.
Clock? Oh what’s a clock? a clock, by any other name,
or any orb by another name, would tick as neat-ly . . .
would click and trickle time, as forlornly as a weeping planet
falling apart in Eternity. . . whatever that is. . . Selah.
Sunday, July 7, 2024
'38 Floor and '24 Door
This giant sucking sound of 2024
summons echoes of past events that we abhor.
As putin plunges soldiers into Donbas region
History recalls hitler’s Sudetan german legion.
Now orban winks at Ukraine lesions,
Like mussolini saluted third reich legions.
Now ruskie missiles blow up Ukraine sands
Scorching Donbas lands as putin commands
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As orban sucks up to vlad’s mad demands
Like Chamberlain fell for hitler’s Munich lies;
Let not Zelenskyy fall for orban’s vlad/mad ties.
Oh what a f***d up web they weave
as fascists twist peace talks to deceive!
Furthermore here on the farther shore
that unstable genius the magas adore
calls vlad the mad a nice guy
Not discerning putin’s hissing, sly
yes, the joker who likes kim jung un
got waylaid by un’s korean stun fun.
joker said kim jung un was nice;
as vlad and jungun fooled joker twice
Same As hitler booz’ld neville in 1938
vlad the mad slides toward Kyiv gate
as the snake slivers toward Euro grass
he intend to bite the Euros in their ass.
But we in the US have a great tradition
of turning back the floods of fascist sedition.
Meanwhile, back in the good ole USA, a little update:
But Smith has argued that even if the court were to rule for Fischer, the charges against Trump could still go forward because they rested, in part, on efforts to use false electoral certificates at the joint session of Congress.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
July 4 '24
with a nod to WB Yeats . . .
Spinning and spinning in the widening web
The spiders cannot seize their prey;
The nation falls apart; the Constitution cannot hold;
civil war raises his magazombie rumble.
The rage-raised tide rises, and everywhere
this ceremony of Independence Day is dimmed.
The best lack common sense, while the worst
are full of insurrection intensity.
Don’t tell me some revolution is in the cards;
A second civil war’s not in our yards.
Civil War! hardly are those words out
when a dreaded sound of Sumter shots
troubles my mind; somewhere in the silence of Gettysburg
a shape with stars and bars and carnage’d fields
a rage as ragged as stars ’n stripes are torn
is cranking up its maga madness, snorting insurrection
while talking heads strive to stem the raging tide.
The darkness slithers in, but now I know
that a century and a half of stony sleep
are vexed to nightmare by a mocking maga
and what rough beast, its hour come round at last
slouches toward Sumter to be reborn?
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Sound of Time
Memory is a funny thing. It bounces around in the brain like a ping-pong ball (remember ping-pong?). After a while it lands on the floor.
Time is a floor, a very long floor, like a mall, or an airport concourse, or a walk in the park.
Just now I happen to be thinking about John and Yoko walking in Central Park. . . more about that later.
As I was saying, time is a floor. But it ends somewhere, at the edge of the building, at the edge of ? a lifetime. . . your lifetime, my lifetime.
In this electronic age, the lives of famous people are inextricably linked into our brains. The floor of my lifetime stretches from 1951 to . . . ? We shall see how far . . .
Then there’s the floor below the one that I happen to be on; that’s the level on which my parents’ generation walked. . . Roaring ’20’s, Depression, Wold War II, the bomb, Eisenhower.
Every now and then some amazing person will enter into this time mystery and somehow get a glimpse into those lower levels, unveiling historical truth and profundity.
And sometimes, now and then, some gifted, inspired person enters into the time frame and gets a glimpse into the upper floors, the ones that don’t even exist yet. (I don’t know how else to say it). The prophets of old, most notably, Daniel, Ezekiel, John the Apostle, Jesus himself the author of it all.
Or let’s say, in earlier centuries, such as the 1500's, a specially-equipperd person, Nostradamus, with his mysterious quatrains. So what’s up with that? I mean, how could he see up on the floors above that didn't exist yet . . . uh, but never mind. I digress.
Anyway, I was noticing that in my particular “baby-boomer” view of time, music has a lot to do with it, “it” being. . . whatever it is.
Perhaps because I am a musician, the music of my youth is closely connected to the memory tags of my lifetime, especially so in these late-life (72) years. And. . . well, long story short. . .I was remembering, on this particular day, the Beatles.
What is presently so fascinating is that the two remaining members of that fab four, Paul and Ringo, have managed to, with a little help from their (techie sound engineering) friends. . . to use an old home recording that John had made, to produce an incredibly meaningful song, “Now and Then” that brings to memory, post mortem, the rich heritage that those fab four guys were able to present to our g-generation.
Thanks to John’s wife, Yoko, who volunteered the tape for Paul and Ringo to use as a basis for their last project together.
You may want to hear it, maybe listen to it, as I do, every now and then:
Monday, July 1, 2024
Deepstate Debate
I know how to get things done! said the Chief exec to the people.*
Oh yeah? said the rabble to the babble. That’s just deepstate stuff.
Yeah, I hear ya bro. I mean, I woke up and I was in a bad dream.*
It’s like, you just woke up in the deepstate. Yeah, it’s a bad dream.
Um, it wasn’t the deepstate bro. The bad dream is the maga king.*
Nah, man, the deepstate cooked all those bogus charges in newyawk.
Trial by jury of twelve citizens, paying a porn star with campaign funds*
Uh, deepstate BS. That’s all that is. People can spend their own money.
Whatever. But he called his gang out to trash our Capitol and Congress.*
Those patriots were trashing the deepstate, not the Capitol.
Our Senators and Representatives are not deepstate. They’re elected.*
The elections are rigged. You know that, don’t you? deepstate scam.
Who told you that? *
President trump, January 6. the deepstate stole election for sleepy joe.
Who told you that? *
The supreme court. president trump is immune to the depstate charges.
Who told you that? *
A little bird. president trump is immune to the deepstate bullshit.
What little bird? *
Uh, tweether. i saw it on tweether. It’s all over the internet, max and oan.
And what did the little bird say? *
He said that the court said the prezdent’s immune.
President Biden is immune? *
Uh, no, the real prezdent. His debate proved it. He takes charge, y’know.
So is he gonna take charge of the deepstate? *
He’ll get rid of it.
He’ll get rid of the government of the United States? *
Just the deepstate.
What about the rest of it? *
He’ll rework the whole dam thing. No more deepstate.
What about our elected leaders? Representatives, Senators? *
He’ll fire them, just like he did on TV.
He can do that? *
Yeah, like I said. Hell get rid of the deepstate.
I see. Then we’ll be in deepsh*t. *
Uh no. America will be great again.
Uh, yeah. Be careful where you step. *