• The Heart is an Eye.

    The heart is an “eye”, (Octavio Paz).  If you stay connected to your heart, if you still feel, then you remain connected to what some call your natural intuition. Your heart is a brain. It allows you to sense what your mind might be too busy to perceive. Your heart is the foundation of your… Continue Reading

  • Podcast | A Pipeline of Boys in Poverty

    The podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of February 20, 2019. After a long hiatus a podcast on my reasons for my commitment to this project. Why would anyone continue on a project amidst such danger and suffering? I am constantly asked this. And in December I had to seriously ask… Continue Reading

  • Warm White

    The snow pack was 30 feet high that winter. My cabin was built on “stilts” yet still I had to dig steps into the snow to climb up over the bank and once on top slide down into the door. I was 19 years old. He was 26, and had killed before. Not because he… Continue Reading

  • Podcast | Archetypes in Crimes and Wars.

    A podcast for Indelible, the documentary media project in progress for the week of September 2, 2018. The third in a new series of podcasts for the project which describes similarities, divergences and shared archetypes between characters within the project. It also looks at: Archetypes which appear when working on this type of project. Confirmation… Continue Reading

  • Podcast | Tribes & Tribe-LESS-ness

    This is the podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of July 31, 2018. The first of a new series of podcasts which will focus on more specific issues underlying the Indelible project. This discussion centers around the current trend towards divisiveness: the way unwell authorities achieve this through social media and… Continue Reading

  • Podcast: Strategies of Control: The Sacred and Profane.

    The podcast for Indelible, a documentary media project in progress for the week of July 2, 2018. This podcast introduces new observations and reveals additional facts: The media and controlling the messengers: More facts regarding the death of Richard Lyall. Why RFK Jr’s bold move to ask that his father’s assassination case be reopened is important… Continue Reading

  • Podcast | From Intolerable to Indelible

    The image above clockwise from left to right: Gerald Patrick Hemming, Eugene Hausenfus in flight, Artie Ray Dufur. The March 3, 2018 podcast for Indelible, the documentary in progress. This podcast considers the use of travel restrictions for those in this project who were involved in what I call dark pool activities, which is work done… Continue Reading

  • No Carrot Following

    It’s an important moment when you realize it is time to no longer follow the carrot that has been held out in front of you. How did you come to that moment in time? Perhaps by quietly  tracing from the carrot to the stick, to the arm, and then looking up at the face of… Continue Reading

  • The Hidden Family of Carl Harp

    On July 4, 2015, I did an interview with one of Carl Harp’s family members, (the subject of the film I am developing, (Indelible). He was born in Vancouver Washington according to most of his records but I had been having a terrible time locating his birth record or the name of his birth mother… Continue Reading

  • The Seismic Shift of Choice.

    Hurricane Sandy ushered in a change in people’s lives beyond that which is brought by the force of wind and water. It may be merely symbolic, but since that day in late October a series of events occurred that seemed to show us the ills in our world, (the mass killing at Sandy Hook, the gang rapes ignored by authorities in India and Steubenville, OH). But if you look closely, a seismic shift has occurred and provided a small glimpse into how the escalation of corruption, cruelty, and the senseless destruction of life does not go on forever.

  • Emily’s Footsteps

    Periodically I think about Emily Bronte and stories about her I have read. She is my reminder of the importance of the integration of rhythm and nature, when I am working on something that is difficult. So I wrote a few paragraphs about her and uploaded 2 versions of a 17th century Irish poem presented… Continue Reading

  • Transmute

    A summer evening. An old house—forlorn and would-be abandoned—except for the handful of those without who would inhabit such a place. An old pool, filled with cedar from trees planted through seeds carried in the wind, now shading and adding voice. A girl dives into the water—the unpristine water with its cool clear passages—and emerges… Continue Reading