(*Just a note, my father has also been a large role in my life and is equal to my mother in terms of positive influence on my life. I just wanted to write about my[…]
Tag: humanity
To Prove a Villain
“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn’t only be dangerous. They would be irresistible.”― Nenia Campbell[…]
Overpowered
Mother Nature roars, Calling down the strength of her forces, Of rain, and, sleet, and hail. Drenching mankind who dare to oppose her. The despair, of the elements, Crashing, and shattering the ground, Raging winds,[…]
Evancescence
I am tired. In the spaces between my heartbeats I find moments of silence anchored by shadows to the breath of every dawn, but this is before the daytime expels sunrise’s misty serenity and thrusts[…]
Who Killed Humanism?
Bomb blasts, man slaughter, rape, gas chambers, gun shots, intentional fires, purposeful suffocation, and the list continues. Death, death, and more death. Everywhere we look, someone is dying, someone is fleeing, someone is taking his/her[…]
To Love, is to War
I have heard that humanity is good. Of course hearing is very different from believing. That is, I never believed it. Then came November 5, 2015. There was a man. A retired Corporal[…]
A Letter to War ~ Free Choice
Dear War: I saw you in the news today. You looked the same as you always did. You were wearing a scarf woven out of the threads cast by fear and hatred; power and insanity.[…]
Patterns We Follow and Choices That Enlighten ~ Polished Personal
When grief or hardship assaults us, we as humans fall. In the face of any difficulty, our instincts are to despair, to treat the situation as incurable, and to buy into self-pity. But the human[…]
They Too Existed
A personal response to Gustave Gilbert’s epilogue in Sergeant Nibley PhD: Memories of an Unlikely Screaming Eagle. It seems to me that if there is one condition that sets humans apart and superior to beasts, it[…]
How Dare I Watch
I fear the unknown. I fear losing myself in the vastness of the world—what does it really mean to be me? Am I simply another copy printed out of a machine, and told to live[…]