Amidst a moment of fleeting exhilaration,
Reminiscences of blurred memories,
Captured in motionless clarity,
Connected from instant to instant,
Swiftly, as life’s current moves,
Recording its history
A reflection of what was,
a glimmer of what is
Images, now displaced
As children, long ago, found again,
Enraptured within a vulnerable moment
Unattended emotions, innocent glances,
A solitary landscape, of lost occurrences,
Cherished, a dim but lit memory
Frozen, for [...]

With the advent of Michael Moore’s “Sicko“, the accessibility of Health Care in the United states (and lack of it) has been brought back into focus. His advocacy for National Health Insurance is not a solution. It is his position, which he explains using the movie.
In my post (Feb 12, 2007) on this subject, [...]

Dreams have long been held as the source of great mystery. We sleep one third of our lives (using 8 hours as the basis of measurement). Dreams have been used in the interpretation of psychological problems and held to be indicators of culturally significant patterns such as aggression where the US ranks the highest amongst [...]

In an old tenement basement on the Upper East Side on 64th street, between Second and Third Avenue, is the home of truly the best hamburger New York City has to offer: Jackson Hole, aptly named for its “old west” ambiance.
As you walk down a short flight of stairs, you get swallowed into an unexpected [...]

On my list of Top 10 Science-Fiction/Fantasy films, I failed to include one film that SHOULD have been on the list: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Novel and screenplay by Richard Matheson, directed by Jack Arnold and starring Grant Williams as Scott Carey, the incredible shrinking man. Filmed in black and white and running 80 [...]

I was always a fan of Marvel Comics and voraciously read everything from Spiderman, The X- Men, Thor, Dr. Strange and of course The Fantastic Four (F4). It was then, in F4 #48 (march 1966), as part of the Galactus Trilogy, that I first discovered The Silver Surfer, one of the most interesting characters in [...]

When I considered the issue of children as a genetic footnote to leave behind as a mark of someone’s existence, I started to play with the mathematics of ancestors and descendants. Bear with me for a few moments as I lay out my reasoning.
Consider the fact that we have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, [...]

A space, long since locked,
Encapsulated memories, hidden
Kept masked from lucid consciousness,
Diaries of experience’s, in chaos.
No where to put them,
Out of sight, out of mind
But for its gnawing existence,
Its encore moment
My former attire,
Drifting, with its own life
Lost in a collective maze,
Knotted yet independent
Connected, through a line of reality,
But for its rightful place
not yet perceived,
My litter [...]

Wikipedia defines a cult in its most generic form as “a cohesive group of people devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture (society) considers to be outside the mainstream.” They can exist in a variety of form, size and scope, and be based on religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, mysticism or any combination thereof. [...]

The notion that the future could be told using any form of divination is one I discussed in a previous essay (On Divination) and that I have long held suspect. If glimpses “of what may appear” to be a future event occur, it should always be viewed with caution and not given more attention [...]