Dear Reader, In last month's Newsletter, I asked, "Are we more and more subject to a device-induced mind virus as our gray matter disappears into our screened devices?" And yes, certain things do begin to reveal themselves! So having come from a world where we controlled our outward environment, are we now at the convergence, the final step, before we become the environment? Image by ChatGPT Take for instance the drum and the flute. They served us well over those many thousands of years....
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Dear Reader, What if you were to bring a Cro-Magnon infant from 30,000 years ago to the 21st century? More than likely, they would grow up to be as capable as any modern child at computer coding, flying a plane, or performing any other complex modern task. Surprised? Well, the consensus among evolutionary biologists and paleoanthropologists is that Homo sapiens of 30,000 years ago were biologically identical in cognitive potential to humans today. This is probably so, but genetic mutation and...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader Twenty-eight thousand years ago, a young boy walks with his companion, leaving tracks in the mud, side by side, within Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave, in southern France. Wolf or dog, that is the question, but the prints tell a story of close human-canine association at an early time. This is the dawn of the Gravettian period, and not long before our mission back in time begins. Where we find Lhen-na', a young woman of the Rabbit Clan. Her mate has died. She is alone in a savage land....
3 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader Here we go with the aliens again! Who ARE they? Or is it what or where are they? They ARE in the news and are called UAPs! Used to be called UFOs! Or flying saucers...like the one below. The good old days! But hey, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena...UAPs, the term for our time. I got my AI (alien intelligence) pals to tap into the old meme, and you see the result. My pals, the Gemini twins, and yeah, I do use two of them, keeping some things separate from the other (if that's even...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Dear Reader The week past, September 26 through 28th, I attended the first Aspen Literary Festival! I think it was a great success, but my take away may have been different than most. It was one of those classic Aspen fall days... And day 3 of the Festival! Kendall Williams photo The scene unfolds in the Aspen Community Church a block away from the Festival headquarters at the Red Brick School House! The interviewee is Sebastian Junger, author of: In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face...
6 months ago • 5 min read
Dear Reader Have you ever had one of those things that just happened. Something that materialized in your minds eye for no other reason but that it was there! The image below is one of those! Not the first...not the last, but one that has stayed with me with its own special relevance... Yes, a white and green 25 window VW Microbus! Put yourself in Asmara, Ethiopia. You've been hitchhiking across Africa for 8 months. More than 6,000 miles! You've had malaria twice...and not just malaria......
7 months ago • 5 min read
Dear Reader Before we get on about pigeons and gratitude, I'm announcing here, that book 1, Thing FIRST CONTACT, is FREE to download on Amazon starting today, August 2nd, through Tuesday, August 5th. Click on the link and start your journey with Jason (if you haven't already), on a journey through the fabric of time! OK... "Why a pigeon, of all things," you ask. "I thought The THING Trilogy was about science fiction!" Let me be clear...if it wasn't obvious before. The THING Trilogy is about...
9 months ago • 4 min read
Dear Reader What is so striking about her…is that despite her fractured and faded condition, her ageless womanhood comes through. What do her lips tell us? A satisfying thought or a cherished memory...belonging to her and surely hers alone? Her neatly coifed curls and red adorning hair band speak of her worth, and her place in the world of women in the late 6th century BC! Delphi Archaeological Museum from Doric temple to Athena Pronaia And in the 4th century BC the natural sweetness of her...
9 months ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader In Thing BEYOND REASON: First Contact the Becoming now published and up on Amazon, in Chapter 12 we find ourselves at the White House: STANLEY RITENHOWER, NASA Administrator, and Gabriel Forstman, NASA's Chief Scientist had come to personally brief the President. They were in the Situation Room with Felix Clerkman, the National Security Advisor and Nelson Scott, who had been President Orr’s Chief of Staff. President Callahan had retained him as her own Chief of Staff, and it...
10 months ago • 3 min read