Two Milestones

....and both were momentous occasions for different reasons. First, Kenny graduated from Warren high school on June 7th, and around the same time the 17 year cicadas emerged from the ground to begin their adult phase. Kenny was born the year before this brood of insects was hatched, but when one considers the immensely varied life he has led in those 18 years versus the life underground sucking on tree roots that the cicadas have led, one can appreciate the vast differences between our species. The biological clock that allowed the insects to emerge together is still a mystery, while Kenny, like his classmates, has followed a culturally programed clock all his life and only now has obtained the legal adulthood to decide what he wants to do with his future -which is to play music. The cicadas? They will follow their instincts to mate and then die, and their children will burrow underground to begin the cycle all over again. Whether Kenny will eventually marry and have children who repeat his cultural cycle is a measure of his free will, which no doubt is what truly separates us for the insects.

What's Wrong With Russia?

Just when we thought Russia might actually be entering the 21st century the government has started this crap...persecuting people for opinions and lifestyles that ultimately threaten only ignorant, weak willed and generally middle age white males...God I had hoped humanity was progressing beyond such fearful, hateful thoughts and closer to tolerant, loving ones, but I have always been a dreamer believing in what humanity Could be rather than what it is. Such lost, immature minds perpetuating such unenlightened perversions...

Facebook

My son created a Facebook page for me to help generate interest in my book 'Anti-Clock, Walking Across America' which is on kindle at Amazon.com...To all those who have shown interest I thank you from the bottom of my heart. It feels odd to promote myself in any manner but I don't know any other way to get the word out. Writing at it's core is a very solitary activity, and I literally have spent thousands of hours alone both walking and writing, trying to find inspiration that might be helpful to the rest of humanity. The cross country walk was the culmination of that process and hopefully the book can inspire someone the way it's creation inspired me. In the end we are all in this together!