http://zenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php 2 novels - Growing Up Nigger Rich & Family Lines + current events and opinions in the weblog of Gwendoline Fortune en-us http://zenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php 2 novels - Growing Up Nigger Rich & Family Lines + current events and opinions in the weblog of Gwendoline Fortune http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P9 The US of A is accepted among its citizens and in the world as a capitalist economy under a banner of "Free Enterprise." If one understands this term in plain, everyday speech it appears to mean that in this land of the free any person has the right to offer her and his goods, talents and ideas to the populace and can succeed or fail on the basis of the value of what is presented. Success, in a capitalist economy, is measured as return in dollars for investment. Another... http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P7 The phrase "The Dark Age" was, once, something I had to know a bit about in order to pass a history test. Although, in my long ago experience students did not merely check one tiny square from among five on an "objective test." We had to write words, sentences, paragraphs so the teacher or professor knew we weren't guessing or "making it up." I think having to make a tactile investment, hand to pen to paper, caused the phrase to remain in memory. People... http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P6 In all books and traditions that seek to connect with whatever is thought to be "the ultimate," called by many names, God-Goddess-Supreme Being-Universal Essence-and a host of parochial names in all times and places, the story of "BEGINNINGS" is paramount. In our past we were nursed and weaned on tales such as "When the Great Spirit brought our people to this place," and "In the beginning God created the heavens and earth," Always there is... http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P5 The question above is one politicians ask when they want to be elected, when they believe that a current adminisration has failed the people and they can do a better job. I'm thinking of how to place a base, a floor under my answer. Let's see, the key components of life might be subsumed under the arc of the US of America 's first statement of being, the Declaration of Independence. These precepts are:LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Okay--Number one--LIFE-- I have chosen... http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P4 To take a long range, long tern, comprehensive view of the current socio-economic-political--human scene I like to consider the euphemistic concept, "Downsizing." Can there be a rational, yet, honest platform from which to discuss this latest form of slavery? If the universe (s) is/are always in a balancing motion of yin-yang, where are we? Where will we be, later. Does the balancing act have meaning? Perhaps we are in a yang-phase;violence and controlling factors appear to... http://xenarts.com/gunr/weblog.php?id=P2 In the process of converting pages to a pMachine blog - please bear with us. In the mean time here is a little ditty by Captain Beafheart! == The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole The thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole. The morning was distemper grey, Of the thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole. The man at the bottom was smiling. He had just finished his breakfast smiling. It hadn't rained or manured for over two hours. The man at the...