When harmony, virtue, kindness, and now even justice no longer hold sway in America, their place in society has been filled with the demand for the ritual maintenance of delusion. #Taoism #Taoist #spirituality #culture #society #corruption buff.ly/97DCR8W

New today on the site! @abigailoswald.bsky.social on DEAD POETS SOCIETY: "Believing we hold all of life’s answers heralds the death of curiosity, which feels like the antithesis of joy. Better, then, to keep searching. Stand on the desk and say what you can see." (🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)

I like those moments when Bugs Bunny lets the plucky wiseass facade slide, shouting things like "YOU FOOLS" and reminding us he is in fact an old, capricious trickster god capable of great wrath and fury toward the rash, brief mortals that dare cross him.

That #FlashMonster 2025 deadline will creep up on you! Soft deadline hits Oct 15th. Issue drops on Halloween. You can go as literal or figurative with your monster as you want. Literary or pulpy. Art house or grindhouse. #flashfiction #writingcontest themolotovcocktail.com/flash-monste...

How it started: I want to make Sasquatch as frightening as possible. A true monster, a dark god of the wood! How it’s going: And this is the scene where the Sasquatch mourns his own culpability in a cycle of hatred and generational trauma. Why am I like this? #booksky

My #BookReview of Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive, by Carl Zimmer #science #biology #philosophy #history #life #Booksky

“Without my creativity, you don’t have a business.” “I think you have it backward. Your creative output serves the business, not the other way around.” She laughed. “Since when?” #flashfiction #creativity #writing #writingcommunity #TheMuse

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. ” ― Virginia Woolf writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Creativity consciously cared for fruits in art – mature poems and novels and essays and paintings and sculptures and songs and whatever your unique seed contains to manifest. But, in my experience, everything works this way. #creativity #art #writing #WritingCommunity

Difficult to quantify but not to see just how big a role this plays in the systems of power in our world.

The Triggering Town was a game changer for me when I was starting out. This is the passage I always point out to beginners.

First #Halloween decorations up!

It certainly struck me as miraculous when my mother turned to me during a commercial break and said, “I think maybe sometimes God makes mistakes.” #philosophy #virtue #LGBTQ #racism #politics #liberal #society

I think this offers a key insight into our historic moment in America. #Taoism #Taoist #spirituality #culture #society #corruption

So thrilled yesterday to open a package and find a copy of @lilydunn.bsky.social's forthcoming book 'Into Being: the radical craft of memoir and its power to transform'. This is going to be such a useful book for anyone thinking about their own or other people's life-writing. #Memoir #BookSky

For your Monday First day of Fall 🍁 ~ Maggie Smith - Poet First Fall — I'm desperate for you to love the world because I brought you here.

It's the first day of #Autumn! Here's a favorite autumnal poem from Mary Oliver: #poetry #autumnpoetry #fallpoetry

My #BookReview of Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World, By T. Thorn Coyle #occult #witchcraft #magic #spirituality #Booksky

It's been a while since I published new writing on my site, but hey- living in a dystopia can be pretty distracting. Have a look, if you like: www.apstrange.com/2025/09/a-wo...

The cosmic is fully on the surface

My #BookReview of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney #sciencefiction #horror #classics #Halloween #Booksky

My book The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening – FREE YOUR MIND is now 100% FREE to read on Internet Archive. Read online or download a free PDF or EPUB. #spirituality #Booksky

If you're going to be in Chicago, suburban Chi One (1!) week from today I'll be at the Beer, Books & Bourbon lit festival, so come on by and pick up a copy of The Lion Communique and/or The Doors Examined! I'll even sign a copy for you (any author you want!)! 😆

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing 💖

𝐻𝑒’𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑦, 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑀𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑖𝑛 1947... #shortstory #weirdfiction #relationships #UFOsky

This essay is not a political rant. It's a big picture spiritual overview of our time. First published it in 2017, in the early months of Donald Trump's first term, it has proven to be eerily prophetic. #Taoism #Taoist #spirituality #culture #society #corruption jackprestonking.com/f/the-tao-of...

Occasionally, one finds a street where time flows a little slower or a mews that remembers its former horses in discarnate sounds of hooves clipping its cobbles. For not all hauntings are psychic stain of violence. We are just as likely to be haunted by absence. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

How could knowing that your brain is constantly predicting and testing reality, instead of simply recording what’s in front of you, help boost your #creativity? #creativity #art #writing #music #dance #science #neuroscience

Jane Hirshfield

You are invulnerable. - Jorge Luis Borges, "To Whoever Is Reading Me"

One anxiety can flatten a whole world. Like a black hole in space, it draws all light into itself. It makes the darkness darker – so dark it can only be detected by its gravitational pull on everything around it. #anxiety #psychology #lifelessons

My #BookReview of Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge, by Jeremy Narby #science #nature #life #intelligence #consciousness #philosophy

Afternoonsong

This weekend only, the ebook version of “The Light Between Us” is only 0.99 cents! Come explore a world of UFOs, sociopathic cults, and a killer love story. #booksky

A small success story in the war against #AI! I was able to reach GoDaddy support via text this morning, and have successfully removed all #AI from my author website. They forced their Airo AI on all customers a few weeks ago. I got them to 100% remove it from my account.

The Arrogant Ape is #2 for non-fiction books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

James Tate

Two from the forthcoming book, CLOUDWATCHER.... 💜

Are you going to be in suburban Chicago or know anyone that lives nearby? I'll be selling The Lion Communique & The Doors Examined at:

This got a pretty good reception when it was published. The Last Stage - Michael Finds a Band open.substack.com/pub/jimcherr...

Going to post some reviews of my books. Just the negative ones, as they tend to be more insightful and entertaining than flattery.

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

The quicksilver nature of the change, shapes and faces and costumes morphing one into the other like a living liquid metal made the choice obvious - Mercuria, in fantasy and reality, had been born into the world. #superhero #fantasy #weirdfiction #comicbooks #shortstory

#Poetry by Robert Bly

This James Tate poem never gets old. #poetry

New #LifeGoal unlocked. #Poetry by Fernando Pessoa: