illusion | illusion
Apr.18.2013
This article first appeared on the Huffington Post. Read it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-mcswain/america-sucks_b_3109063.html
"America Sucks!"
Those were the words written on the subway wall.
Disappointment. Frustration. Fearfulness. Sums up the "state of affairs" in America, uh...
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Feb.19.2013
Why do the charmed play hide and seek
and flee the story in the wings,
as if disporting on the stage
could set alight the curtain fringe?
Illusion's limelight's highly prized
and channelled sentiment extolled
If structured context cramps the style,
another's script makes players...
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Sep.08.2012
Reality - in its illusionary two-ness (duality) - gives "each" "other" credit for "this" or "that," while all along being utterly self-caused.
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Dec.29.2011
If you don’t wear stilettos and still get orgasms, then pat your back. You are the last hope of science. It’s funny that ‘science-ologists’ think such theories need to be debunked. The “year’s worst abuses against science” by celebrity offenders is the annual list that is part of the Sense About...
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Oct.15.2011
What a beautiful sunset, I said to myself. The sky was awash with the shade of infant skin wiped of blood, bruised a little blue in parts. It was as though a seraphic infant had spread wings. I looked for traces of the sun that had just left…but it was only the sky stretched beyond where the eyes...
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Sep.14.2011
The word "illusion" is variously defined as being a false or mistaken impression of reality or a visionary ideal in conflict with reality, and to be "disillusioned" is apparently a state of mind in which one is more in touch with actual reality because he has lost his...
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Jul.31.2011
I’m sitting on my postal stamp sized back porch enjoying the cool morning, listening to the geese honking and some tree frogs singing, with a song running through my mind; “Isn’t it Time” by the Babys. In particular is the phrase “I just can’t find the answers to the questions that keep running...
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Jul.07.2011
The newscasters voice screamed; "Terrorists having Bombs Surgically Implanted"! Upon hearing that new more invasive airport scanners would soon be available to inspect every inch of our bodies; inner and outer, I went to my computer and started typing; "Reasons for new...
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May.30.2011
At a recent book selling event, I met an elderly gentleman, a 1958 graduate of the US Naval Academy. I told him I was in the class of '66 from Ye Olde Boat School, and so we shook and had a nice conversation. At the chat's end, he wished me well with my book sales and walked off. A few steps down...
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May.26.2010
Our world is going through a hard shift. On that, I believe, everyone is likely to agree. Not only does it seem that our planet is being traumatized by increasingly frequent disasters, but also the people inhabiting it are struggling to just make it to the next day. All one has to do is open any...
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