Category Archives: Personal Reflection

Keeping the Flame Alive

Posted on 2025-01-19 by Mark Green

The cruelty will be the point. The incompetence, we get for free. Today is the last day of the Joe Biden Presidency in the US. By all factual accounts, Biden has done a sterling job: orchestrating a “soft landing” for … Continue reading →

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The Resistance Becomes Serious Now

Posted on 2024-11-10 by Mark Green

The return of Donald Trump and his appalling gang of fascistic cronies to power will have worldwide impacts. There no other way to put this: those of us with decent, kind and life-affirming values are decidedly out of power in … Continue reading →

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Anxiety Eve

Posted on 2024-11-04 by Mark Green

It’s the night before the most important US Presidential election of my lifetime. The entire world has a stake in the outcome: a decent and adequate leader with sound values and qualifications versus a mad, incoherent, hateful man obsessed with … Continue reading →

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What We Turn Back into the Soil

Posted on 2024-10-21 by Mark Green

It’s Hallows season–Samhain, Halloween, what have you–and my mind turns to mortality, decomposition, recomposition and the great wide Circle of Life. I’ve written a bit about death. Here, about the fact of mortality. Here, about how we can prepare for … Continue reading →

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Feeling the Heat

Posted on 2024-07-02 by Mark Green

It’s 104 degrees F. (40 C.) outside my house right now. It’ll go higher tomorrow; a gigantic heat dome has formed over the American West and temperatures are spiking to insane levels. With this year already poised to break last … Continue reading →

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A Straight, Cis Dude’s Reflection on Pride

Posted on 2024-06-02 by Mark Green

They make it all about sex. The sneerers and spitters, the blithe dismissers, the judging castigators who allege that being queer is just about who you rub your body parts against. Who you create orgasms with. The hatred is bound … Continue reading →

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