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Responding to the End of the World
That's great, it starts with an earthquake Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes And Lenny Bruce is not afraid Eye of a hurricane, listen to...

Mike Dickey
Jun 13, 20254 min read


A Dirty Little Secret
"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect...

Mike Dickey
Jun 12, 20254 min read


Asherah
"But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and...

Mike Dickey
Jun 11, 20253 min read


It's On
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo It's Tuesday. Is this the first week of the civil war? The...

Mike Dickey
Jun 10, 20253 min read


While Rome Burns
"We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening ." -Moonlight Graham, Field of Dreams About to start a...

Mike Dickey
Jun 9, 20252 min read


Gardening Gone Awry
“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions - not outside.” -Marcus Aurelius Ah,...

Mike Dickey
Jun 6, 20253 min read


Ministry of Truth
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street...

Mike Dickey
Jun 5, 20253 min read


Distraction
"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The Sun is the same in a...

Mike Dickey
Jun 4, 20256 min read


Trump and Man at Harvard
"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the...

Mike Dickey
Jun 3, 20254 min read


Happy Monday
I don't like Mondays (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays I wanna shoot, ooh, the whole day down Down,...

Mike Dickey
Jun 2, 20251 min read


A Post About Nothing
"Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all" - Charles Bukowski An absolutely perfect morning in the valley of the...

Mike Dickey
May 30, 20253 min read


The Brief Rise and Meteoric Fall of the Pencil Tricks
"The young always have the same problem--how to rebel and conform at the same time." -Quentin Crisp For those who follow this blog, all...

Mike Dickey
May 29, 20256 min read


Nothing New Under the Sun
"Teachers told us The Romans built this place They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the Empire garrison town They lived and they...

Mike Dickey
May 28, 20253 min read


Becoming the Diaspora
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are...

Mike Dickey
May 27, 20254 min read


A Busted Antenna
" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de...

Mike Dickey
May 23, 20253 min read


Making Sense of the Moment
"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future." -Alvin Toffler "I have never been...

Mike Dickey
May 22, 20254 min read


Small Blessings
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -Marcus Tullius Cicero A delightful, rainy morning...

Mike Dickey
May 21, 20253 min read


This Time is Different
“Unexpected increases in inflation are the de facto equivalent of outright default, for inflation allows all debtors (including the...

Mike Dickey
May 20, 20254 min read


A Liminal Moment
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we...

Mike Dickey
May 19, 20253 min read


Painter of Light
"Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves." - Henrik Ibsen "The last horizons I could see are now...

Mike Dickey
May 16, 20253 min read
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