Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza

Blame Shame Pain Chain: Gaza Holocaust genocide refugees,Naqbah Amalekh atrocities.IDF Hamas HezbollahJihad US Ayatollah. Great Britian imperialismapartheid Zionismethnic cleansinganti-semiticextremism. Islam Judaism,Liberation Yerushalayim,Sins of the fathers visited on the children.Transgenerational vengeance engine. Uzzi settlers burning olive treesbreeds revenge in helpless teens;torture, memory, Nazis:perpetual collective trauma machine. — One state two statesIslamic state Jewish stateState of constant […]

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The Migration of Xmas

Credit: Coca Cola

The Xmas Spell Xmas isn’t my favourite time of year. It’s come, in fact, to be my least favourite time of year. I once celebrated the most magical aspects of the Santa trope, carrying on my parents’ tradition, arranging my kids’ stuffies while they slept around the fireplace, leaving ashen footprints of Santa having come

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Exploring The Mountain Within

Illustration by Daniel Hoernemann

Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way

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Trust & Power: from “who do you trust?” to  “how do you trust yourself?”

NIk Beeson

The relationship of trust and power is complicated. We all so deeply desire to be able to fully trust someone, something, some people. But, unfortunately, it’s precisely where our desires are greatest, our needs most unmet, that we are vulnerable to manipulation and, in fact, become manipulative ourselves. ‘Trust’ can be a lever worked by con artists for ‘power’. Ultimately, it’s only by learning to trust ourselves that we can become fully capable of discerning not just who to trust, but how much to trust.

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Truth is a Refugee

In reaction to my deep dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I remembered a song I wrote a while back called ‘Truth is a Refugee’, about wars, and truth. Just piano and vox. And I did my very best to bring it back, and made a recording on Saturday (special thanks to rj fleck for

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An Ode to Incarnation

An Ode to Incarnation I’m the ephemeral union            the temporal assembly            the passing coherence            the momentary encounter            the transient intersection            the makeshift collaboration of a trillion organismscomprising a billion universes. I’m      a ball briefly burning brilliantly            a comet            a candle to kindling            an also ran flash in the panwhose dwindling gravitational fieldand centripetal forceis devolving

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