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HRTS finally published!

Today I made the move and published HRTS…  We’ll see what happens now.  But I do feel good about how it’s turned out!

Award from Wedding Wire

I earned an award from Wedding Wire, and wanted to see what it looked like:

 

WeddingWire Dr. Don Gage Reviews, Best Wedding Officiants in Boston - 2015 Couples' Choice Award Winner

 
Hmmm… I’m going to have to get some help on fixing this up a bit…

Another Poem Added to the Samples Page

A poem in honor of Moses…

 

His feet dragged up those last few agonizing yards,

Freewill

In Card’s XENOCIDE, they’re talking about whether or not we have free will. And Ender brings up the idea that there are an infinite series of lines of dominoes each comprised of infinite numbers all falling so you can never find an ultimate cause of anything yet everything being totally caused by something else. Hence no free will.

That got me to thinking. What if we are like a metallic domino with a magnetic charge that we vary by direction and intensity. And there are those infinite series of dominoes bumping into us pushing us in all kinds of directions. But there are also an infinite series of dominoes that also affect us but not by bumping us: by pulling us with their own magnetic charges. These are causative or ends dominoes: purposes.

So while we are pushed by events that happen to us, we are at the same time pulled by those causes and purposes that attract us or perhaps, repel us. And especially in relation to these latter dominoes, the strength of the charges inside us, which we have the power to vary as we will, have an enormous influence on the strength of the dominoes’ attraction on us.

The fabric of our lives…

In Orson Scott Card’s XENOCIDE, Wang-Mu says, “The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven…”

I have never heard it expressed so perfectly. Perhaps wisdom is the art of learning from that fabric and then weaving with better threads going forward, as best and imperfectly as you can…

Does that make sense? Have I spotted a treasure among our literary gems, or have I deluded myself?

Real close now!

Just reviewed the latest proof of HRTS. It’s ready! Now I just have to review PR and tweak that. Then it’s out the door!

Pinterest

Just joined pinterest and put together a poem with a photo to post.  I like how it looks!

“RADICAL HYPOTHESIS”

[This is a note I prefaced posting this poem in FaceBook.  I didn’t feel comfortable sharing it by itself.]

I just wrote a poem, “RADICAL HYPOTHESIS.”

It paints a troubling and disturbing, prophetic portrait of our future.  And it has the ring of truth to me.

But when I thought of sharing it, I immediately pictured those friends who are doing everything beautifully, and empowering a good, bright future.  So is the vision faulty and flawed?

To the extent that the poem paints the clouds as though there were no breaks in the dark skies, then yes, it ignores them and is wrong.  And we need more, not less hope and optimism.

It just looks globally and there it feels true.  It looks at we the people, not we as individuals and families and communities.

So I guess I would ask my readers, as if my writing had any impact on anyone, if you have not yet, PLEASE WAKE UP!  And if you are awake and lending your shoulder to the critical tasks we face, THANK YOU!  BLESS YOU!  I LOVE YOU!  DON’T GIVE UP!!!

 

 

How Red The Sky Almost Ready!

I just finished my 7th proof of How Red The Sky.  Almost ready to publish!  🙂

Comment on Orson Scott Card’s ENDER’S GAME

 While commenting about a book my son, Steve, gave me, I inadvertently struck upon something that sums up why I do much of what I do:

To connect with another person, another mind in such a way as to introduce a spark of insight that might otherwise not occur; and hence to elevate that person’s life and perhaps even beyond – that is the highest calling of the author. Whether achieved or not, it is an endeavor worth pursuing.

Whether writing or preaching or leading marriage celebrations or even consulting with attorneys or business professionals, that kind of sums it up. Not that others don’t try to do the same. It’s not a matter of ego. The more of us who engage in trying to elevate this business of living (even when failing), the better off we are as a whole society.

 This is the comment on FB that led to the above:

The other day my son, Steve, gave me a book he thought I might enjoy. I’m not even into the story itself yet, but still on the Introduction. But I find it fascinating.



Orson Scott Card writes: "I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not ‘true’ because we’re hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself."

To connect with another person, another mind in such a way as to introduce a spark of insight that might otherwise not occur; and hence to elevate that person’s life and perhaps even beyond – that is the highest calling of the author. Whether achieved or not, it is an endeavor worth pursuing.