A summer evening, an old white house—forlorn and would‐be abandoned except for the handful of friends who occupy the rooms and gather in the kitchen. Outside—the sound of cars and trucks arriving, and the group rapidly grows in number. Friends with friends. An old concrete pool, filled with water, now covered with the leaves of… Continue Reading
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
Bumping this up. Former WRLDs project. My interview for Surface Magazine. An interview with David Sokol, on WRLDs
I just wrote to Governor Inslee about this bill. Please contact his office and object. This will harm history and erase the history of the poor. Urgent! I just learned the Governor may soon sign a bill that would allow human corpses to be quickly turned into mulch for profit. A few years ago I… Continue Reading
A podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of April 21, 2019. This podcast includes a clip from an interview with psychiatrist John Leibert, who first appeared in the Indelible story when Carl Harp was interviewed by law enforcement in Snohomish County Jail at 2 AM, in August 1973. Leibert was asked… Continue Reading
Engineer Dave Feldman creates data sets of his own blood chemistry and uses it in conversations with scientists to poke them into new considerations. My sense decades ago was that artists could do the same, if those in the sciences could treat them openly as researchers who can expand beyond the boundaries they can not… Continue Reading
A very important legal precedent has been established regarding how the bias of a Judge is determined when they are assigned to a case addressing issues involving law enforcement. Very often a Judge may have close ties to law enforcement officers, or may come from a similar background. They may have been a prosecutor or… Continue Reading
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
If you are a whistle-blower where afterwards multiple employees at multiple government organizations, companies, professionals have taken actions to harm you or your loved ones, you will often come across those (mostly naive individuals), who when hearing you tell of your experiences will say: “it sounds like you think there is/was a conspiracy”. This is… Continue Reading
Imagining is another form of meditation. It may be useful for those who find themselves unable to practice traditional meditation. Studies have shown that meditation changes the structure of our brain and increases our well-being. It also strengthens and quickens our capacity to solve problems. Imagining helps us to reconnect to who we truly are.… Continue Reading
Bumping up a post I wrote in 2009.
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
The podcast for Indelible, a documentary in progress for the week of September 22, 2018. In this quasi-video podcast, (it has hidden images…), the method used to construct a controversial history is discussed. It has become clear through the research phase of this documentary project that recording a history using traditional techniques can only be… Continue Reading
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
A podcast for Indelible, a documentary media project in progress for the week of August 8, 2018. This video podcast explores how we as consumers of media can navigate the onslaught of weaponized information provided by an ever-expanding group of condoned news sources, corporations and governments. It is a challenging time to present any historical… Continue Reading