No Limits On The Freedom Of Expression (+1)

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)