Sunday, January 12, 2025

Good Bye to a Dream (a sonnet)

Here now the time has come to say good bye.
It came to me the way the night arrives. 
O let the dusk remain like a long sigh. 
Alas but now in darkness my dream dies.

No breath or life does dream have of its own, 
but life it has within the dreamer's lungs. 
So when a dream its final breath has blown,
the dreamer feels like final song has sung.

Good bye my dream I know you were not meant
to live beyond the constraints of my mind.
Imagination now forever sent...
I leave you now on trail I've left behind.

Eulogy now spoke the deed is done,
I lift my eyes and pray new dream will come.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Are looks more important than personality? No, Actually. (My Son)

 He worked on this for almost a year. 

I'll admit two things regarding this video.  The first is that it speaks to an audience that I am (mostly) unfamiliar with.  He uses terminology that I've not heard. Mewing... Looks-maxing... etc. He acknowledged this audience, for sure, but as I learned what the words meant and who this audience is, I realized that the terms might be different, but the audience is age-old and permeates most other audiences. 

The second is that... and I've told him this... I don't think he goes far enough with his answer. Now, for the record, he goes as far as he wants to go with the video. He doesn't want to answer the question with an entirely new solution, he is primarily (as he has told me) sought to destroy the concept that looks are of primary importance. 


It is a long video, documentary movie length... but I think it is interesting... and so I share.