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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was an original short story, very short, in fact, first published in The New Yorker Magazine in March of 1939. It was next part of Thurber’s book published by Harcourt Brace in 1942, My World and Welcome to It. It was first made into a full-length motion picture releasedContinue reading “Secrets in The Secret Life – the Several Renditions of Walter Mitty”

There is a world where love is real and moreThe fabric of space-time continuumIs love itself and loving feelings soarSurrounded by a love force field in someLoving dimension outside what we knowWhere only true love’s lovers dare to goFast as the speed of love in loving looksEscape velocity beyond attractionNot found in any scientific booksDiscoverContinue reading “Love Physics”

I used to help my father at the storeAnd once back home would carry heavier things,Or so I thought, not seeing all he boreFeeling alone, a lonely weight age brings.During the week he waited for me: IWould wait for him slow walking while we shopped.He missed me I knew when I was not by;I missContinue reading “What’s In Store”

Arbeit Macht Frei? Sunday remains a day of hope and dread Anticipating Monday’s stressful dawn Still thinking all’s well as we go to bed Uncertain what we base our feelings on. We sleep and dream out of a known unknown Clinging to notions of our hoped-for schemes, Wild flowers in the night like mushrooms grownContinue reading “Seven Days of Sinbad”

Young crows appear invalid, even mangy, Strutting their stuff into the street, Just like a couple of cowpokes, rangy With stilted steps, as they gawk for tidbits to eat. Around the corner on a slab of concrete lies A form epitomizing night Until it unfolds itself gazing with a guise That shows surprising poise andContinue reading “El Gato Negro”

Who Am I Anyway? The thoughts, the sequence of the concepts we are following, are trying to express, sometimes get away from us, sometimes evade us, like the prey escapes the predator in a chase. A friend had this experience in conversation with me. Suddenly his thought eluded his presence of mind and he lostContinue reading “Wilds of the Mind”

Inspired or perhaps hoodwinked into reviewing and revising my opinion of The Twilight Zone, I’m watching Walking Distance. As a child, I saw the ham-handedness, the melodramatic obviousness of what were and are supposed to be Whoa! mind-blowing concepts. For example, in this episode, our man Sloan remarks in the drugstore how the proprietor was always sleepingContinue reading “The Twilight Zone Revisited and Reviewed: Walking Distance, Season One, Episode Five”

America is aspirational. It has always been more about ideals than origins. That is in part why reviewing our history has been necessary and controversial, because so much of what was considered traditional history focused on ideals and excluded obvious contradictions. Originally, and for some time thereafter, the truths held to be self-evident in theContinue reading “THE AMERICAN ASPIRATION”

Mr. Spock, Get Us Out of Here! Even as a child I could see problems with the original Star Trek, particularly in terms of social and psychological concepts not only in the characters but also in the narratives and assumptions about progress. Technology had made amazing breakthroughs. Social relationships were, however, more than stagnant. TheyContinue reading “Star Trek Reflections, Warp One”