Why I Created a Blog
My book of personal essay titled “Dead Toad Scrolls,” explores numerous themes including American cultural events, personal identity, mindfulness, ego death, and writing as a means to undertake a personal vision quest and orchestrate a transformative leaning experience. I greatly appreciate any person posting their comments on the diverse subject matter presented in “Dead Toad Scrolls” or even posting a formal or informal review upon its themes.
I created a blog in order that anyone can share their comments on the predictably, volatility, and capriciousness of the human condition including the incremental development stages, essential characteristics, and universal traits of human beings. Please feel free to add your personal comments to expand the wealth of insightful commentary regarding what it means to be a human being attempting to find happiness while combating the perplexities inherent in our rapidly changing environment. I intend to supplement the initial blog posting with a series of select quotations from people from diverse fields including literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, and the cognitive sciences.
American culture is a dynamic process. Current events, some of which are joyful and others sad and disturbing, affect our evolving collective consciousness. After sending my book “Dead Toad Scrolls” into the publisher, police officers in two different states shot and killed defenseless black Americans causing horrified Americans to protest. During a march to protest police-involved shootings, an African-American sniper in Dallas, Texas killed five police officers and wounded several other people. Perhaps we can use our shared thoughts to mend our personal wounds and address the Nation’s grievous history of violence, hatred, and toxic political schism that divides Americans into warring camps. All Americans are entitled to dignity and respect and must be able to pursue their dreams without fear and suspicion. Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can.”
In addition to sharing any comments regarding current social and political events, please feel free to post comments on other topics explored in “Dead Toad Scrolls,” including the self, identity, free will, consciousness, unconsciousness, personality, culture, technology, customs, rituals, storytelling, myths, time, memory, dreams, boredom, futility, agony, fear, change, chaos, happiness, suffering, despair, mind-body, religion, ethics, war, violence, revenge, death, illness, politics, law, environment, education, teaching, work, literature, music, art, television, films, comedy-tragedy, sports, celebrities, fame, fortune, love, compassion, empathy, sex, hate, truth, justice, injustice, mental health, grief, despair, self-rejection, alienation, exile, suicide, courage, pride, shame, character, family, friendship, community, drugs, alcohol, risk-taking, materialism, solitude, metaphysics, human condition, secular humanism, science, tyranny of history, genetics, instinct, intuition, reasoning, illusions, delusions, hope, faith, childhood, adulthood, aging, marriage, parenting, absurdity of existence, existentialism, nihilism, walking, reading, writing, meditating, self-evaluation.
I created a blog in order that anyone can share their comments on the predictably, volatility, and capriciousness of the human condition including the incremental development stages, essential characteristics, and universal traits of human beings. Please feel free to add your personal comments to expand the wealth of insightful commentary regarding what it means to be a human being attempting to find happiness while combating the perplexities inherent in our rapidly changing environment. I intend to supplement the initial blog posting with a series of select quotations from people from diverse fields including literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, and the cognitive sciences.
American culture is a dynamic process. Current events, some of which are joyful and others sad and disturbing, affect our evolving collective consciousness. After sending my book “Dead Toad Scrolls” into the publisher, police officers in two different states shot and killed defenseless black Americans causing horrified Americans to protest. During a march to protest police-involved shootings, an African-American sniper in Dallas, Texas killed five police officers and wounded several other people. Perhaps we can use our shared thoughts to mend our personal wounds and address the Nation’s grievous history of violence, hatred, and toxic political schism that divides Americans into warring camps. All Americans are entitled to dignity and respect and must be able to pursue their dreams without fear and suspicion. Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can.”
In addition to sharing any comments regarding current social and political events, please feel free to post comments on other topics explored in “Dead Toad Scrolls,” including the self, identity, free will, consciousness, unconsciousness, personality, culture, technology, customs, rituals, storytelling, myths, time, memory, dreams, boredom, futility, agony, fear, change, chaos, happiness, suffering, despair, mind-body, religion, ethics, war, violence, revenge, death, illness, politics, law, environment, education, teaching, work, literature, music, art, television, films, comedy-tragedy, sports, celebrities, fame, fortune, love, compassion, empathy, sex, hate, truth, justice, injustice, mental health, grief, despair, self-rejection, alienation, exile, suicide, courage, pride, shame, character, family, friendship, community, drugs, alcohol, risk-taking, materialism, solitude, metaphysics, human condition, secular humanism, science, tyranny of history, genetics, instinct, intuition, reasoning, illusions, delusions, hope, faith, childhood, adulthood, aging, marriage, parenting, absurdity of existence, existentialism, nihilism, walking, reading, writing, meditating, self-evaluation.
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