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From Chapter Seven of Pearls in the Mountains

Chapter Seven I chose to make the Ocoee drive early in the morning instead of the night before. I left at six for the three hour drive, which would put me there...

From Chapter Six of Pearls in the Mountains

Climbing the steps of the bus was like stepping into a thick wall of silence and dread. I took the dogs out and came back in as quickly as possible. I didn’t sa...

II The Dragon - Painting by Sabina Nore

In German, one can say "inspiriert", which means inspired, but also "beflügelt", which translates as the same or, literally, it would be winged. I am not sure h...

From Chapter Six of Pearls in the Mountains

Chapter Six Sammy had a lowland boil going. His large wrap around deck was arranged with tables and chairs everywhere. It was probably closer to five o’clock th...

Venezuela Reelects Maduro, Defying the U.S. Empire

Roger D. Harris just returned from monitoring the recent presidential election in Venezuela. Here's his take on Maduro's reelection. The Venezuelan people reele...

From Chapter Five of Pearls in the Mountains

The second morning waking with Mary was much more delightful. My head felt clear. The world was starting to lighten up, dark blue and dim. Mary made the perfect...

CONFLUX: The Day of the Bumblebee

This is a sort of personal post. A marker. Feel free to ignore it, I won't mind. It's just a diary entry, but without any personal, juicy details. Probably utte...

Abyaneh is one of the most beautiful villages in Iran

Abyaneh is a village in the Central District of Natanz County, Isfahan Province, Iran. Characterized by a peculiar reddish hue, the village is one of the oldest...

From Chapter Six of Pearls in the Mountains

Chapter Six Sammy had a lowland boil going. His large wrap around deck was arranged with tables and chairs everywhere. It was probably closer to five o’clock th...

Healthy Thoughts

I’ve been having these thoughts lately. I guess I need to flesh them out. They’re thoughts about health, science, mind, and emotion. I’d like to think that I ha...

From Chapter Five of Pearls in the Mountains

Chapter Five “Hey!” “Hey, river rat!” I said. “You’ve been gone for a good while.” I had a small fire going. Mary lay out a towel and dumped a bag of rocks onto...

Please, Allow Me To Introduce Myself............ Why I am Passionate About Education

I am passionate about working towards reforming the education sector of Bangladesh. All my life I have been driven by my strong belief that every child should h...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day Five - Althea

After the smoke and the dust settled, I found this part of my life. So here's to life on the road as a river gypsy, little communes, naked hippies and witches, ...

Make a Splash

It's your stories that remind me of my stories. The more you live, and the more you share, the more I remember....

70 years of Nakba, the birth of the last colonial state. Very often the colonial origin of Israel is forgotten, but today it is more important than ever.

Yesterday, Israeli soldiers opened fire again on Palestinian demonstrators. In doing so, 52 people were killed and 1,900 injured. The protests took place on the...

From Chapter Four of Pearls on the Mountains

At Jaws, the right side where we were at was all rock, great bones of earth rising up from the water and stair-stepping up in short climbs. Across the river, th...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day Four - The Dam at Otter Creek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e625SklxY The summer of 1995. I was STILL trying to finish college. Clay and I were right up front for this show. It was an ou...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day Three - Fade Into You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI 1994 I think I felt every breath that year. Each breath was a labor...painful and difficult to take. I had just boug...

7-Day Wayback Music Challenge: Day Two - Shout

In the summer of 1985, I was 13 years old, and my world was an inferno. I lived in an old civil war plantation mansion on the edge of a tiny town in the southea...

Seven Day Wayback Music Challenge Day One: Come Undone

When you wake in the morning and some song is playing in your head that seems to have no business being there...you haven't heard it recently...maybe it wasn't ...