Noemi and I celebrating her birthday two years ago.
By Dan Bodine
OK, friends, admittedly throwing dementia into the above title won’t rock as a mystery thriller. But it’s personal, though. So here goes.
And I’ve been quiet for a long while, also. Retirement writing just isn’t working out the way I’d figured, let’s say. So a reality check is more what this is for me, maybe. Finding a slower groove. Continue reading
By Dan Bodine
Anyone want to take a psychedelic trip? (Courtesy DEA)
Any other old hippies out there remember the psychedelic drug, LSD, and all the commotion it stirred back in the ’60s and ’70s!? Even in those of us searching for God!?
Before the Willie and Waylon scene — Maybe it was the Beatles who catapulted this mind-expansion drug onto the public scene! Maybe a Ticket to Ride? Continue reading
By Dan Bodine
Daring to make a few Facebook observations about hysterical real estate magnates running amok now in today’s provincialism climates — e.g., with our newly elected President Donald Trump and gang — reminded me of a time in Cleburne, Tx, early to mid-’80s, when feathers all but flew, too, at a certain P&Z hearing. Over this same word I’d used to describe some local, restless natives then — e.g., “hysterical.” Continue reading
By Dan Bodine
Whoo! Beat-up some, but I’ve new strength, too!
What vocificious angst of a cultural war among us Election 2016 has delineated is everybody‘s got something to say now. And is saying it! Which means, Yes, we’re here, folks! We’ve crossed the Rubicon! Open the champagne bottles! Empire-building of biblical literalism is getting a shorter lease again!
Conservative white Christian Americans — especially the deep-pocketed, radical, Anglo fundamentalists who wish to strangle the Bible with literalist interpretations (for their own riches) — no longer dominate our voting electorate. Continue reading
![It's best to remember the different fields of forces involved before jumping into an argument about your neighbor's ratty daughter. [Photograph by Dayna Mason on Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/danbodine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Fields-of-Force.jpg?resize=782%2C368&ssl=1)
These are lines of force between two opposite charged objects, visible only because of thousands of tiny iron filings flung out randomly atop the table have moved into alignment with the unseen lines of force below. It’s best to remember the different invisible fields of forces involved around you before jumping into any heated argument — say, about your neighbor’s ratty daughter, i.e. Things can become convoluted and hot very quickly when entering new energy fields! [Photograph by Dayna Mason on Flickr]
By Dan Bodine
You the kind who spent hours as a kid wondering how hairs on a cat would stand up while the animal was rubbing itself against your leg? Or how running a comb thru your hair could generate enough force to instantly suck a small bit of tissue paper to it sometimes?
Hee, hee! This magnetism stuff (and its correlated charged energy fields) use to blow my mind so much I’d climb walls! Sorta. Growing up as a Baptist fundamentalist in rural North-Central Texas has a way of making one instinctively map the territory before ever stepping out anywhere! The Good Lord Above wadn’t the only one with unseen hands! Continue reading
Remember the violence of the Crusades? Is violence against Christians the answer for it? In unprecedented numbers since the 9/11 attack on America, Christians are being slaughtered around the world. But with all the other news upheavals, are getting relatively little publicity for it. What does the collective conscious of the West say? Is there an answer to stop all the religious violence? (Images above, below right, from http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/the-war-on-christians.)
By Dan Bodine
Progress? Sí, we’ve made some. Maybe the world is ready then for a universal human rights declaration permitting people to be different. Even in religious beliefs!
Waddaya think?! Would it ease large-scale tragedies by political and religious fanatics? And possibly even ease the world’s burgeoning refugee crisis!? Hundreds of thousands even fleeing Christian persecution! Continue reading
THIS WILL SURELY BE THE END!!! Pray, folks! PRAY!!! Pray that Houston voters today keep men out of ladies restrooms. Pray HARD!!! It’ll be the END OF TIMES if this thing passes! From Houston it’ll spread like wildfire! Devouring all of us! Shown above outside a polling site, a man urges people to vote against the so-called Houston Equal Rights Ordinance in early voting Oct. 21. ( Photo by Pat Sullivan / AP) –from buzzfeed.com/
By Dan Bodine
HOUSTON — If what’s going down in Houston today officially gets on the books…Men, we’ve spent our manhood! Throw in the dice! The whole ball of wax! The hell with the towel! Games over! Neutering time has arrived! Prepare yourself for THE END!
OMG!!! Has is come to THIS!!! Continue reading
By Dan Bodine
The announced prisoner release plan this week of
Unloosen these chains! (Image by dreamstime.com)
some 46,000 federal, mostly drug-use convicts back “onto the streets” is stirring praise in some corners and criticism in others.
In all corners, it seems — after how drugs have torn this nation apart in the past 40 years or so — it should be stirring reflection though. And then hope, New sentencing guidelines are part of President Obama’s drug reform program. Is this a keeper? Continue reading
The Scene: This is our garden, looking from behind our bedroom window toward the rear of the yard. Note the position of the lamp (in orange rectangle); and the ribbed bottom of an old pond tub to the right. The shaded white area beside it is what sure appeared to be an oval object with glowing lights. A UFO? Not a drone! The little planes don’t glow! The hole referred to in the story is just beneath the center tree framed in a yellow rectangle. That’s where I’m hoping to build my turtle pond some day. (DB photo)
By Dan Bodine
EL PASO—Yeah, people do crazy things. I’ve done plenty. I’ll do plenty more. But I don’t think I’ll ever attempt a citizen’s arrest of an Unauthorized UFO landing in my backyard again. Too dangerous for an old coot! A little bit of rain in the desert does some strange things to people, yes. This is one of them.
Much of El Paso saw rain or thunderstorms Sunday night. I didn’t exactly sleep thru it, but… Sometime about 2:30 a. m. Monday, I awoke. Alert! How come? Continue reading
An exuberant elderly woman greets the Pope Sunday, July 12, in the Banado Norte neighborhood in Asuncion, Paraguay. The Pope was in the Americas criticizing radical capitalists and the newest worship-of-money idolatry that’s come down upon the backs of the poor, he claims. (Gregoria Borgia / Pool – AP photo)
By Dan Bodine
The world’s getting crazy and crazier, no?! Could it be we’re going back to Square One? Finally? Or are we in for a revolution from the right first? An armed revolution?
Pope Francis, while touring South America now, is on a climate change and environmental roll — decrying adverse effects of unbridled capitalism and what this newest false-worship-of-money practice, another idolatry, has meant on the poor, and the world’s environment! Continue reading