The Luxury of Privacy Recently, I had occasion to spend a few weeks in a remote village in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Laos. Just as I have seen in many other parts of the developing world; they are accustomed to a few more people packed into small places than we are in our spoiled and pampered society. I have witnessed buses and trains overflowing with humanity. I have seen bustling streets and marketplaces crowded to the brim but these observations were always made in public. Even though the thought had crossed my mind before in various and sundry exotic locales, a short stay with the villagers of Ban Nakalom provided the realization that something that is held…
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ILLUSION of the time passing by a new conception of reality as an infinite river that eternally flows forth from the heart of creation a cosmic celebration with reverence to the medium we, as human beings, use to communicate of course, I refer to words and the soft sincere structure of sound TAP INTO THE VEIN OF SECRET CREATION Uncover the forgotten stream ANCIENT ECHO that gives birth to this particular form of thought FROM THE WOMB OF EARTH LIFE SENTIENT CONFUSION Comes the revelation muse seeker’s Magick flow etched in ink To be forever catalogued in the halls of history And the TOWERS OF TIME Branded forever in a greater reality That we, as organic compound…
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James Botwin, aka “Stream Daddy”, had come to a decision and he was sticking to it.He was leaving behind the USA and all of the wishy-washy flakes in it for an extended period of time. As he watched cold raindrops spatter against the window of his basement apartment on hip and fashionable Northwest 23rd street in Portland, Oregon, he thought ahead toward fantasies of warm tropical sunshine and beautiful expansive beaches south of the border. Yet he could not keep his mind from focusing on recent events that had led to this situation. Only a month previously, Jim had shared his life and this apartment with a beautiful young blonde named Elisabeth. The two of them had enjoyed a whirlwind…
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