Inside from the Inside

Before we dive into the deep let’s dip in the shallows. Okay?
“What do you have in mind?”
‘Water’ is a simple word. But consider the associations: Steam. Mist. Fog. Cloud. Rain. Tornado. Hurricane. Snow. Snowflake. Avalanche. Flood. Waves. Tsunami. Stream. River. Brook. Sea. Lake. Ocean. Ice. Ice cube. Glacier. Iceberg. Drink of. Bottled. Distilled.
There’s more, but [...]

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The clouds had shifted their priorities, waltzing in numbers toward a distant horizon. The Sun’s intent fluttered (its shadow) among them. Songs of silence filled the air. Chill strutted his stuff.
“Excuse me, Sir. I was asked to deliver this.”
Glancing at it then folding it again, he tucked it halfway among the ambered pages. It quietly [...]

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Growing up in the Texas Hill Country we were glued every evening to find out the way it really was out in the world.  Those days of yester year are over and so is the news legend that told us, Walter Cronkite.  These days news is not the journalistic truth and reporting meter it once was. 
Is it any wonder [...]

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Yesterday Hispanic blogosphere was buzzing with the news of Lou Dobbs exiting CNN.  Some claimed victory from their efforts to force CNN to muzzle Mr.  Dobbs on his anti immigrant anti Hispanic vitriol. 
Personally, having worked in media for so many years I understood his strategy of content branding.  With the explosion of cable leading to the fragmentation of [...]

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“Bet that went over well.”
He continued writing. Words invisible at pen’s tip emerged in its wake.
He abruptly ceased.  A quiet forceful sigh emerged. Pen settled, he closed the pages thus revealing Palubian leather covering the Bogandora. Gold words inlaid the upper front cover.  Translated, they read
………………Gifted by The Ancient Elder of the Mensharians
His hand rested [...]

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These last few days have been hard on our country and our fabric way of life. On the economic front while we are no longer hemorrhaging, the recovery is going to take a long time. Unemployment is high and perhaps higher than what the numbers tell us because some have just stopping trying to find [...]

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Few phrases bring apoplectic rage to the free market loving social contract averse than “redistribution of wealth”. How dare some bleeding heart  take from me and give to those undeserving, too lazy to earn their own. But there is an unacknowledged piece of this distribution equation. Every time we open our wallets we are redistributing [...]

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..“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all ..our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and ..know the place for the first time.”
………………………………………….~ T.S. Eliot
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“Love is metaphysical gravity.”                 ~Buckminster Fuller
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“All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, [...]

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