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Avid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding. Worked and marched for CORE in the 60's. Built 100-ft., 80-ton sculpture on Pratt Beach, Chicago. Planted trees in Oregon. Solo canoed Illinois, Mississippi, Chicago, Rock, Missouri and Wisconsin Rivers. My big thrill as a kid was building small rockets, archery, cruising my woods and going to the Birdhouse on weekends to see the Miles Davis Quintet and many other Jazz Greats.
I was in San Francisco in '65, '66, '67, and '68. Built Burr Tillstrom's puppet theater for Kukla, Fran, and Ollie at WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago. Briefly taught stage carpentry at De Paul Univ. Technical Director one season at Oak Park Shakespeare Festival.
Played trumpet in many small jazz bands, Sextessence, Nova Express. Played on road tour with rock band and many union and studio gigs. Lived with the Rasta in Blue Mountains, Jamaica.
Drove millions of accident-free miles Over the Road in big trucks, 48 states and Canada.
Currently living alone, caring for four rescued animals, one of which a kitten I recently found 'helpless as a kitten up a tree', abandoned in a city park. He came down to my call, so we folded him into the family. Without someone to care for life makes little sense. All reason is born of the heart. As Maya Angelou wrote, "Love holds the stars in their courses."

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(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 16, 2015
probably the best 100-page book for serious thinkers, ever. A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind. A journey through history of lives, ideas, and accomplishments and cycles of war and conquest. A must-read for objective analysis of current events in a five-thousand-year perspective. A treasure.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 5, 2012
A Synergistic Solution Out of the box we're in, facing extreme weather, pollution, extinctions and military deployments, drug violence, and dependence-- a synergy offering a simple solution to many problems at once. Grow hemp.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 2, 2012
Election prediction by algebra The Fix Is In, and the election is a fait accompli. Anybody thinking they can waste a vote on third parties or omit voting altogether doesn't realize these guys play for all the marbles and for keeps, and they REALLY don't care what you think.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 19, 2012
GOP May Be Required By Law To Post Warning Label The GOP is more hazardous than Satan, Radioactivity, pesticides and berserkers combined, and should require a warning label for adults-only consumption.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Disappeared posted on Gather as secret police
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 20, 2012
A Word from the Old School A warning of saboteurs and an editorial suggestion about the word "revolution".
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 15, 2012
On Repairing dysfunctional government Jefferson's ideas on preventing government from becoming a sow for all the little piglets.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 12, 2011
SETI Team Intercepts Alien Message A Hoax, say Aliens Aliens use finance to dominate earth. Strategy to "poison them in the egg" cited.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 2, 2011
Article seven, Constitution of Massachusetts Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government;
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 21, 2011
A Republic of Minds A new awareness arises, crystallizing a republic of minds.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 29, 2011
What Bush v. Gore Cost Us Bush V. Gore started a cascade of costs. The current Supreme Court is a cancer of the body of law. But destruction, unlike construction, ends. The good men do lives on.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 15, 2011
the disappeared-- fiction a fictional account of a harmless little old lady's response to a police state.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 3, 2011
Of Human Bondage The inalienable rights innate to human nature will always cast asunder the shackles of human bondage.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 30, 2011
a reply to Dr. Bramhall's supposed pathology of nonviolence It is not nonviolence, but the dominance of a medium of exchange over life, itself, that is pathological.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 28, 2011
People of Earth Message from the Galactic Confederation to the people of Earth.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 29, 2010
"Whale Nation" Sends Emissary to UN Hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste dumped into the oceans have finally paid off. Mutation is the engine of evolution and to prove it, whales have requested UN representation.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 18, 2010
President Obama Issues Emancipation Proclamation and Pentagon Adopts Life-Saving Mission The old strategy of military dominance and subjugation of women will not work anymore. Because we are technically at war, the President can issue an emancipation proclamation under Article two. Defense is more about saving lives and winning hearts and minds than taking lives.
(20 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 18, 2010
the meaning of justice, in reply to Mikhail Lyubansky In assessing the failures of the US justice system, Dr. Lyubansky offers a systemic solution. But the US justice system is an economic machine, not a justice system. Defining justice helps to understand.
(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 12, 2010
productivity doesn't work Conventional financial indicators omit viability.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 31, 2010
get real, people-- in praise of Susan Megles Now is the time to crush the GOP, not abandon Obama.

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