There’s a beautiful thing bout the place where I’m from It’s called Sarasota and its a whole lot of fun We’re known for our beaches and beautiful women Retirement villages and people with millions We get a bad rap for mistreating the homeless And get caught up in politics so …
“From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.” – Tecumseh I am a very fortunate man. Although I have not historically been compelled to amass large sums of money and what might be considered material fortune, I am remarkably blessed to have cultivated some …
This song was written by my friend Truman Adams, who is a multi-talented artist most known for painting murals and creating 3-D chalk art. When I learned it, he’d forgotten a couple of lyrics so I made up a few to balance out the second verse. He’s since remembered the …
The following is an excerpt from Money, Sex, Power & Faith: The Convergence of Culture. Its been said Alaskans have hundreds of words for different kinds of snow, and Hawaiians have almost as many for rain. Yet though we are equally immersed in the precipitation of money, as Paul Hawken …
I’d really like the world to change. In my lifetime, I would really like to see so many things happen that are currently stalemated by intolerance, bigotry, and ignorance. But I know that any change I’d like to see has to start with me. So I’d like to start …
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book Money, Sex, Power, and Faith: The Convergence of Culture. In the spirit of transparency, I must admit I often fail in my endeavors, and I tend to let people down. I spent my late childhood and adolescence in a fundamentalist Christian school …
As far as how I survived my “year without money,” and how I survive now, I continue to allow Life to provide as I provide for it. I have meager needs and have found they are met quite adequately by my community as I seek out ways to meet the …
The human condition in America is that we are stretched between too many dichotomies and struggling with finding ways in which to make humanity sustainable, as well as enjoyable. While our mainstream lifestyle choices are guided by the continued necessity for “more”, of anything and everything, although we have the …
Considering this notion of entitlement, most would agree that every person is entitled to a living wage, yet in this ironic age of industry, we have made it necessary for each person to work for that wage as we simultaneously mechanize jobs and minimize the opportunity for employment in a …
By the paper, the poetry open mike night was supposed to begin at eight, and I showed up at 8:40 as a measure of aloofness and due to the fact that I was editing what I’d been inspired to write until I noticed the sun had set. As it was, …
