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Theme for a New Year: Creativity, Profit and Adventure
It's 2015 and most people start all their New Year's Resolutions, lofty goals, or otherwise map out how the coming year will be better than the last. I've tried it lots of times and one year made a resolution not to make any more resolutions....
Creative Connections: 0001
Today begins a little space on my website where I attempt at making creative connections. Not where I meet other creative people, mind you, but rather make connections in observations in the world. In a recent article titled Secrets of the...
One Man Proved You Can Live Underground
This just in! (sort of)China: Miner Found Alive After 17 Years UndergroundDue to a mining collapse during an earthquake, Cheung Wai, a 59-year old survivor from the 1997 accident, was trapped underground."Somehow lucky in his misfortune, Mr. Cheung was saved by the...
Anger Sharks
Some days, you just get pissed off. Something little might even trigger you and send you into a spiral.
The biggest thing is not to react in the moment, but respond. It’s also good not to stew for too long if it’s something that needs to be addressed.
Memories of Trimming the Tree
I've had a hard Holiday season this year for some strange reason, and I'm not entirely sure why. While a few things aren't where I'd like them to be, most things are pretty great. And the gratitude, faith, and love I have around me is pretty spectacular. So why should...
Tasty Vegan Chili
Trying to eat healthier and living with a person who has vegetarian to vegan tendencies is a challenge sometimes. I THOUGHT I craved and missed meat… but a lot of times, it's just the feeling of having comfort food, familiar flavors and textures I miss from growing...
Ant People of First Earth
This is another area I've always considered ever since I first heard about the Hopi Ant People mythology stories. You see, it was the Ant People who sheltered humans underground during the destruction of the First World according to Hopi legend. Here is a...
Talk Previously Titled “Creating Your New Life”
- -(Original talk at Unity of Fayetteville 2/1/12) Today’s Message was going to be called, “Creating Your New Life.” In it, I was going to share some of the tools, thoughts, and lessons I’ve learned getting to where I am today, and moving to where I want to...
Twinkies™ and Global Consciousness
- -(Originally a talk given at Unity of Fayetteville on 7/21/13 about manifesting) If you’re here, you’re obviously wondering, why Twinkies,™ Global Consciousness and Manifesting? I know that nearly everyone here has studied manifesting. Most of you...
Silicon(e): All Chapters
All in one place for you to read, chapter by chapter.When an employee is found dead at Ben Ashmore's Design and Technology company, things begin to unravel quickly sending both him spiraling into a mystery that seems to point towards corporate espionage...
Chapter 10 | Pantone 622
Agent Emma Samuels pulled away from Ben Ashmore’s green-gray home in a complete stupor. ‘How could one person have that much put on him so fast and not be a complete vegetable. And what the heck was going on with all these events? How are they tied...
Chapter 9 | Pantone 877
The dull silver handcuffs were finally being unlocked and taken off Ben’s rather sore wrists after a long forty-eight hours of incarceration. Not that he noticed how long it had been. Too much had happened to him. He’d lost so much. His fiance....
Chapter 8 | Pantone 871
INTERLUDE Hundreds of golden metallic bullet shells covered the warehouse floor where Agent Emma Samuels surveyed one of the many strange scenes she had witnessed or been called in to investigate today. A bank of ten computers surrounded a...
One Tip for the Future… Sunscreen.
One reason I started the First Earth blog, was simply to keep track of things that were coming together a creating a picture in my mind. While I believe in the statistical probability of alien life, I've never seen hard evidence that proved it to me...
Are There “Forbidden Zones” from the Past?
What would a warning from 10,000 years ago look like?When I was young, my dad did a lot of artistic things. Painted. Carved. Word working. Cartoons. And, one item I still have that he made was a copy of a Mayan calendar. Now, this was WAY back in the 70s...
Chapter 7 | Pantone 2728
The sky was an amazing deep expansive blue, but everything felt flat and lifeless. Like someone had adjusted the saturation until only dull muted colors existed in the world. Even the series of ambulances, police cars, and fire truck that...
Chapter 6 | Pantone 7484
The green and gold school colors of The University of San Francisco shown brightly in the morning sun and the banner they were displayed upon billowed in the morning breeze off the bay. Students were already hustling about on their way to...
Chapter 5 | Pantone 2562
The entryway to the Bremmen Brothers’ Funeral home was filled with flowers from a previous service the day before. Bright splashes of lavender orchids stood out among the peace lilies and other more conservative flowers. The older Bremmen...
Chapter 4 | Pantone 133
Ben stared at the cream swirling in his dark brown cup of coffee. The hypnotic spiral was mesmerizing in the sleep-deprived, surreal stupor he found himself in at 6:30 in the morning. He had spent most of the night with his sister- and brother-in-law,...
Chapter 3 | Pantone Cool Grey 3
The morgue walls were a checkered tile pattern of a cold gray and pale sea-foam green. Terri lay on a gurney under a sheet, battered, bloody, broken, and ... gone. Ben’s phone rang several times before he lifted it up to answer. It was Steve. “Yeah. Ben,”...
Chapter 2 | Pantone 137
The sky outside of Ben’s broad view of the bay was a brilliant orange. Wisps of crimson and gold clouds reflected off the ocean reminding him of why he loved the sea so much. It reminded him how life constantly shifted, swirled, and flowed from moment to...
Chapter 1 | Pantone 484
Jerry lay face down on his keyboard in a pool of blood. His finger stuck on the delete key and the computer making an annoying ticking sound as the cursor flashed on the blank screen.The police and coroner had made their arrival at the small design company...
Any Man's Death Diminishes Me…
Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 70th birthday. And while I can celebrate the 10th of October, I still have a tendency to grieve a bit. Today would have been my grandmother’s 114 birthday (if my math is correct). I celebrate and grieve as well.
It's All 6000™
Just one of my old sayings. Origins: Misread by a nearsighted person reading, "It's All Good" and saying "It's all 6000? What the hell does that mean?" It become a saying amongst our friends and a constant source of ridicule. However, we often would ask, "How are...
Sponsor Creativity
If you’ve enjoyed anything on my site, please feel free to donate what you can. In turn, I’ll continue to add content and encourage others to live a creative life! Regardless, I hope you’ve enjoyed your time. If you feel like reaching out, please do so. I'm easy to find.
Even a cup of coffee for a few dollars, or $5 for a triple grande mocha would give me some 'juice' to create for me and others.