Bible – Adventures of an Earthborn Alien

Letting go of resentment and Studying the Bible

I’ve been listening to my frustrated thoughts about MAGA, and decided to turn them on myself. They are ignorant; I am ignorant. I want them to educate themselves, so I’m educating myself. I was raised Buddhist, so I didn’t grow up in the church, and I only read the Bible from a historical perspective inContinue reading “Letting go of resentment and Studying the Bible”

The main reason I stopped drinking at 27

My story has always been that I don’t like the taste, but now that I know I’m autistic, as well as, well…when I say a diagnosis, it is a symbol that triggers the opening of a mental room and the characters of me that live in those rooms. I have not been officially diagnosed withContinue reading “The main reason I stopped drinking at 27”

Writing Process: Revision Following Workshop in Bible’s Creation Poem

The best part of workshopping the poem I posted last was figuring out what I was trying to do with it. After feedback from my group, here is my revision. Mother Earth, World of the Patriarchs, Becomes In darkness does the Spirit of God hover over the Waters of Creation. Before form, creates light. BeforeContinue reading “Writing Process: Revision Following Workshop in Bible’s Creation Poem”

Writing Process: Poem Inspired by the Bible’s Creation Story.

I started a writing group, and this week wrote a poem to workshop. One group member mentioned writing prayers, and I got the idea to look for inspiration on this poem in the Bible I bought, intending to read to help me better understand all the Christians in my life. I was raised Buddhist, andContinue reading “Writing Process: Poem Inspired by the Bible’s Creation Story.”

Imagining Universal Income and how it might change society/culture.

This longish exploration of my thinking starts sad/mad and ends hopeful. I think. 😁. Sparked by reading about Dahmer’s father…and ends with a brief thought about the Bible I’ll explore more later… I have felt passionately, since I was a young child, that parents are to blame when children murder. But now, at 42, IContinue reading “Imagining Universal Income and how it might change society/culture.”