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Once my life was pain and passion
war and strife and sorrow
love and friendship, joy and laughter
Beauty, Sun, Darkness, Dying View full article »
Time for bed.
Time for rest.
I try so hard.
I do my best to find some reason.
But it can keep
until I find myself again in my sleep.
Silent, Spinning – stars above my head dancing bright, come to view.
Softly drifting, sleeping and as I do, I’m dreaming of you.
And I wonder tonight, as I walk through the light where you are.
Are you dreaming of me?
Warm wind blowing in off the ocean waves and the spray tastes so sweet.
Full moon glowing, smiling down on us and our love so complete.
For ’twas here on that night,
heavens shining so bright that we vowed to share the rest of our lives.
I miss your tender kisses, quiet moments we would share,
our hopes for the future in the warm evening air.
Our vows on the beach there looking out at the sea,
never knowing our union was never to be.
When I saw you drift away, love, moving farther from the shore;
I was helpless to retrieve you and the moon she smiled no more.
I will never again hold you, feel the touch of your hand.
But I’ll always feel you near me sitting here on the sand.
In my sweetest of dreams, you are still here with me in my heart
for the rest of my life.
In My Sleep – Copyright © 1994 – 2000, Kevin Tillman – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Thanks for all the years of patience and love.
Thanks for reminding me (repeatedly) that I am worthy of that love. View full article »
Such Hectic Lives
So what’s the rush?
it all comes in its own sweet time. View full article »
Once lonely and Barren – feeling of no worth.
You came to me,
Inspired me from within to blossom View full article »
“One Voice” Lesson introduction
This is PART 1 of the sign language lesson for “One Voice.”
This signing is not ASL. It is View full article »
This is PART 2 of the sign language lesson for “One Voice.”
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The Nature of Reality
The dichotomy of Fiction v Non-Fiction
How much is social engineering?
How much of it keeps us from reality?
How much of reality is perception?
Media outlets allowing fiction to fuel the story – b/c/o the 24hr news cycle & the fear of being scooped, etc.
Social engineering through desensitization.
Extreme violence, sex, drama, etc.
Extreme comedy, extreme fear, extreme love.
Comparative paradigms – vicarious experience & sensationalization of self destructive behavior.
The fiction of “Reality TV”
Personal “Prisons”
Using the metaphor of “The Prisoner” and how we can be our own jailer or our own liberator
How can we expand our personal walls?
how far into the desert are we willing to wander?
How long are we wiling to tread water?
How long can we do this before the “Rover” of social engineering norms drags us back into The Village?
What aspects of our lives are Pavlovian Social Responses – Cell phones, texting,“Productivity”?
notes –
* Dehumanization of automation
* How much does the interconnectedness of social networking isolate us from human face-to-face interaction?
*Has this kind of interaction fed the media cycle & how the media behaves?
The sudden disregard for electronic archival media & the understanding that facts can be researched more easily than ever before