“State of Bean” To bean orNot to bean? That is the question Don’t explain your answerJust bean orDon’t beanThere’s really nothing to itSit there like a bean orJump like a beanIt is the same thingYou are what you areA Bean … Continue reading “State of Bean”
Yesterday during an interview a San Francisco Examiner journalist asked me what has been the most pivotal moment of my life. War: Februrary 24, 1991. Thirty years ago today, we launched from the Saudi Arabian desert into the kingdom of … Continue reading February 24, 1991: Task Force Ripper Roars into Desert Storm and Corporal Wooley Actions Amor
Rest in Peace, Renee, a beautiful spirit, a fire soul, and the mother of a great man, my carnal Los, as solid as they come–a single father who raised five children on his own. Today they are all solid men … Continue reading RIP Renee, Ney Ney
“Bone Silences the Heart” We never see each other again At first it is hardBut thenMemory fades to aTragic fate:Oblivion We like to imagineMemoryThat we areSo special as to never beForgottenSo strong as to neverForget We are not thatSpecial or … Continue reading Bone Silences the Heart
Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Barrio Bushido. Spanish-Japanese loosely translated as Street Honor. Sick-with-it Sav vida loca philosophy, tragedy, and victory. Amor in its finest form. Today, February 17, marks ten years, a full decade, since the rainy evening … Continue reading Barrio Bushido: 10 Years of Street Honor, Ashes, and Dust
Click the video to meet Reddy Ryder, an APBT Pup in action. This is Reddy from 11 weeks old to five months old, from the first day I got em to now, the present moment, February 2021. In all, this … Continue reading “Reddy Ryder: An APBT Pup in Action”
With lots of love, I share some good news. I know it’s tough all around right now. I, too, feel it and am doing my best to make it a little better day by day, moment by moment, which, in … Continue reading Guardsman News Article on Pura Neta: “Benjamin Bac Sierra on the Reality of Fiction”
September 14th 1996 To Benjamin Bac Sierra, a Brother poet writer, a friend. “There is no such word as defeat if we are what we eat, we are what we think, so let us not mug our minds with thoughts … Continue reading Piri
Words can do anything you want them to do. They are an all-around transformational power literally at your fingertips. You can caress them and lay them gently into a treasure box, or you can shoot them out to stars. Praxis, … Continue reading “Why Write? Praxis (Part 7 of 7)”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Those words got style, power, and lots of love. They are simple words, not overly intellectual, but they encapsulate our entire existential … Continue reading “Why Write? Style (Part 6 of 7)”
