Written by awneitsch on April 11, 2025
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Asanas
Motorcycle Vapors . Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesRobert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was written in 1974. It presents a partially fictionalized auto-biography that examines how people seek or ignore quality in their lives and how they deal with fear, love and other emotions. Most of the narrative is interwoven with an extended motorcycle trip the author took with his
Written by awneitsch on April 7, 2025
Fuck Your Friends? What They Do?
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social Studies . Uncategorized“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog” -Mark Twain “We were all basically alone, and despite what all his studies had shown what was mistaken for closeness was just a case of mitosis.” ― Andrew Bird Mitosis is a cellular process that replicates chromosomes and produces two identical nuclei in preparation for
Written by awneitsch on April 3, 2025
CROSSROADS- WHAT NOW? – WHERE TO? – And What To Do With The Commutards.
Mutterings And Murmurs . Poly Tics . Social StudiesThis will be a short one. No, I’m not going to talk about the 1986 American fantasy musical drama film based on true events surrounding a white privileged boy’s love of Southern black blues guitar music, his fascination with Robert Johnson, and how he sold his soul to the devil to play like him. And I’m
Written by awneitsch on March 16, 2025
Stupidity vs. Evil – Who Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Are Our Governments Stupid Or Evil? Are They Both?
Mutterings And Murmurs . Poly Tics . Social Studies“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence”. – Charles Bukowski The collapse of critical thinking is leading the collapse of society. The world is mincing and prancing and protesting and rioting and occupying in a mass formation goosestep to the rising
Written by awneitsch on March 15, 2025
Scenes From Unit 5AB
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesI saw a new resident the other day. I didn’t know her name. Residents are deposited and linger and then they are gone. Jesse died the other day. At one mealtime I saw a new resident straining up from her reclining wheelchair, trying to cut her spoon with a knife and fork. She somehow knew
Written by awneitsch on February 13, 2025
THE NOLAN PRINCIPLES-A NOVEL IDEA?
Mutterings And Murmurs . Poly TicsThe following letter will shortly be sent to the Premier of Alberta, some lapdog Members of Legislature and various City of Airdrie, Alberta, United Nations owned councillors and It’s Worship, the mayor. There will be some editing before I hit send. It will be sent knowing that it may not be read or even acknowledged.
Written by awneitsch on February 8, 2025
Stop Making Sense
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social Studies . Songs For The ApocalypseNo. I’m not talking about the Talking Heads live concert film. Some other time perhaps. There is no making sense of any of it – trying to figure how life can be brutal and beautiful at the same time. At birth I was given a body and brain. My five or six senses, among other
Written by awneitsch on February 1, 2025
The Content Of One’s Character – Hero Or Villian?
Mutterings And Murmurs . Poly Tics . Social StudiesMartin Luther King Jr. Day falls on January 20th. Let us genuflect and pray. Surely there is a flag to be flown at half mast or quarter mast. Take the knee if you have to. There is no question that MLKJR was a positive historical figure in the long, painful march for freedom and human
Written by awneitsch on January 9, 2025
The Well Known Mysterious Stranger
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesSamuel Clemens was a great man and humanist. His work remains for generations to discover and enjoy but his books are harder to find in libraries and have in many cases been deemed irrelevant, inconvenient or harmful to the weak minded. They have been figuratively burned. Their library space has been replaced by feminine hygiene
Written by awneitsch on May 25, 2024
THE PROMISES – HAD ANY LATELY?
Mutterings And Murmurs . Social StudiesWithout getting into the details or context of any program, religion, ideology or belief system, the following statements are quite compelling. God or any perceived higher power can be conceptualized if only to facilitate acknowledgement that you are powerless over certain things and that humility can lead to courage and empowerment. The idea is to