Current academic thought is like an alphabet where certain letters are being attacked and removed. You can’t have freedom of expression by censoring letters and voices you don’t like or agree with. Every time it’s been tried, it ultimately fails. Freedom of expression is what has made America great and stands as a threat to totalitarian societies like Russia, China, and Iran. A minus sign always takes you backward where a plus sign expands. The answers lie in an ever-expanding mixture of ideas and beliefs living together for their mutual benefit where new words are created by more letters — not less.
As children develop language skills and learn to read, their minds expand and the world opens up around them —and more importantly, inside them. Language becomes the great liberator that rescues children from the darkness of ignorance and obscurity, and when freely allowed to develop and expand, it creates free-thinking adults that become literate, prescient, moral, and wise. It can’t happen any other way.
These lessons are everywhere in nature. When water is free-flowing and unobstructed, it is at its cleanest and most beneficial state. When blocked up and constrained, it becomes stagnant, polluted, and undrinkable. Festered with alkali, it can bring on sickness and death. When trees and flowers are openly exposed to the wonder of the sky and the sun’s rays, they grow tall and expand. Deprive them of that and they will slowly wither and die. Both fish and mammals grow bigger when raised in open spaces that allow them to roam naturally and reach their full potential.
For our children to grow and expand into happy and productive people, we can never let anyone, or anything, take away or limit their means of free expression.
(The New Room: June, 2026)
Sound Bites: (5-23-2026)
Window Dressers
Running
different
than reigning
Politicians
shortly
find
Chasing the vote
versus
crossing the moat
Very few
able
— fewer to thrive
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Narrative Rewarded
Like weight training
for an athlete
poetry makes you strong
Each word a rep
till failure
to bring your lines along
A verses strength
increases
when flexed the story bold
With narrative
enrichened
— the poetry like gold
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Venture Forth
My treasure hidden
beyond the waves
the horizon
beckons on
Through pounding surf
and giant seas
a voice
is calling strong
I set my sail
the closest reach
with tiller
in both hands
On faith alone
round jagged reefs
I trust
in who I am
Through longish days
and longer nights
my course
uncharted stays
The mainsail up
the jib reset
one albatross
relays
That fortune comes
but once in life
to those who hear
its call
And venture forth
through unknown winds
into
— the raging squall
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Spiritual Chrysalis
Losing oneself
to find oneself
Emptiness cowers
— catharsis begins
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Devil At The Gate
Loyal
when it suits you
Faithful
when it’s safe
Committed
to the mirrored self
Devil
at the gate
Back turned
to the prophet
Fealty
starts to burn
Treason
left on high display
Shame
— at every turn
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Poet & Prophet
Today
is all that matters
Memory
your biggest foe
Mining the pathway
to future promise
Excuse and weakness
grow
Time an illusion
a crutch for the weak
To hobble and stumble
in constant retreat
This moment recurring
endemic when willed
the poet and prophet
— forever instilled
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Never To Return
If the past is empty inside you
— the future will be lost
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Resistance Ignored
The world
quickly bored
at the recital
of misfortune
And most
willingly avoids
the sight
of distress
The path
of resistance
ignored
at its peril
All character
only tempered
when put
— to the test
(The New Room: June, 2026)