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...
30 days 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...
3 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......
4 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...
5 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...
6 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...
7 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader Think about it… Humanity’s first contact with an alien intelligence would indeed be a major disruptor of worldwide proportions. Have we already made FIRST CONTACT with that alien intelligence? Major disruptor of worldwide proportions? Sure! Of where does it come and how would we know? Human intelligence deeply intertwined with our material bodies, with the physical world and our sensory experiences...could be called embodied cognition, driven by biological imperatives, emotions,...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Dear Reader Time to kick back and let your mind go… Back to ancient Greece! Theatre at Delphi with ruins of Apollo Temple behind The words came up from the magnificent figure on the stage below…came and went… “Fury, a high queen of strength even among immortal gods…and the undergods, and for humankind…life dimmed in tears, theirs the disposition.” Susan, carried away by it, ‘Yes, and my disposition, my destiny too.' Her thoughts gone away, the words of Athene come and go as the tragedy plays...
9 months ago • 3 min read
Dear Reader Time to kick back and let your mind go… You're on Mars now... Ottumwa Crater, from central peak - Derived from Google Mars "It was stupendous in scale and distance. Arkan had said he wanted to put me in a crater because it was round. He said I would get power from it...the rim might be several thousand feet higher than where I was standing, and miles away. The floor of the crater looked to be two thousand, maybe three thousand feet below me. The land and the sky merged,...
10 months ago • 3 min read