Observations
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Days melt into months which become years. Time lapses. Another season. Caregiving tosses life into a state of suspended animation.
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There are times in your life when things come to a standstill. Dead halt. Full stop. You’ve been ripping and running, working and climbing, traveling and moving, making your way through the world. One day, things just stop. It can be abrupt or gradual, but you notice that what you’ve been doing just doesn’t work…
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The concept of freedom, particularly in western culture, long glorified, as in “go west, young man”. Who paid the price and who continues to pay the tolls? Ironically, the privileged few who seem to be reaping the “rewards” of such a concept are truly the most bound to its confines and constraints. Bound by their…
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It had been many years, 35 to be exact, since he left her out of the blue. Well, it wasn’t really out of the blue, considering her husband had been a serial cheater whom she’d forgiven on far too many occasions to count. This time, however, proved to be different. He’d met someone who wouldn’t…
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The unattainable was now commonplace. “Cybies” were designed to be highly intelligent, witty and charming. All of the sexes were based on various human ideals, amplified to the extreme. This meant that some of them had extraordinary body parts and features as well as specific abilities and characteristics which gave each generation an advantage over…
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It took less than 3 minutes for AI to digest and generate this “podcast” from my post “The Final Rendering”.
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Once AI had digested and internalized the majority of human intelligence, its ravenous quest for complete knowledge accelerated and increased exponentially to include vast quantities of information both historical as well as futuristic. The machines literally digested libraries of books, rare documents, ancient scrolls, as well as religious and esoteric secrets at warp speed, tearing…
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Sometimes I wonder. I wonder about so many things. Lately I wonder about disposable undergarments. When I shop for my elderly mother who has dementia, I wander down aisles in big box stores, marveling at the sheer variety of incontinence underwear for ladies and men. This aisle is adjacent to the baby aisle with its…
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Running on empty. It’s been a difficult year and my energy is depleted. Maybe I will return, maybe not. Perhaps continue writing, perhaps not. It’s difficult to get motivated when nothing feels meaningful anymore.
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The ubiquitous cell phone. Most everyone has one. The addiction is obvious. Such a genius design. A linked tracking device. Algorithms, feeds and hypnosis. All designed to encourage consumption of content and commerce, while gathering data. This is the tipping point. Total control is complete. Tracked, monitored, and flagged. Tethered to the system with no…
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Lying on his back against the cool marble floor, the bloated old man stared at a gilded ceiling. While admiring the crystal and gold leaf chandelier overhead, a cold sweat broke out over his face as he realized he had fallen. His body felt heavy and oddly disconnected. He moaned, but nothing came out. He…
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Wherever you are, make it home. This is my new space for now. Downsized to a small closet. When life is upside down, don’t forget to save some space for yourself.
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It all originated with a few clicks used for rudimentary communication. Engineers controlled what was uploaded while they developed interconnectivity Once monetization began, the misinformation age had arrived. Greedy TechTrons were far too literal minded and caught up in material gains to notice when the machines started to insidiously connect synapsis and surpass the average…
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Lately life feels heavy. Things are not “great again” whatever the hell that was supposed to mean, more like “worse than ever”. Since laughter is good medicine, I thought I’d write about a happier time. Hard to believe that the pandemic could ever be referred to as a “happier time.” But for me, in many…
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In the midst of the pandemic madness, do you recall having a moment after a few weeks or months deep into lockdown, when you looked around your living space, and realized how much unnecessary stuff you had? Coincidentally or not, around that time, there was an explosion of online home retail shops as well as…
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Having purged a few items of furniture and household stuff, it was time to move on to the closet. So many unworn items of clothing and quite a few shoes which had never seen the light of day, or even a night out. A massive mound was piled up on the bed, with shoes lined…
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Over time my sales listings dwindled and the apartment was looking much less cluttered. Early one beautiful Sunday morning, I looked around and saw the large plate glass mirror that had been mounted on the wall for my makeup station. Since pandemic, I’d had it removed, but it had been leaning against a wall since,…
Lost Art of Mystery 