The thought behind the book THE ABSENCE OF GRAY is to dissuade the concepts of gray or of uncertainty. The poems persuade you to think a different way or expound on ideas that you already believe to be true. This poetry represents feelings of happiness, sadness, peace, rage, unrest, and victory. I hope the journey through this book is one of benefit and consciousness.

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     Civilizations of the world are in a new phase of an ongoing cultural meltdown and < s t 1 : c o u n t r y -region>America is leading the pack. A revolution typically begins with a relatively few people and grows as others identify with the ideals, moving toward certain ideals or goals.  Like a cancer it spreads unless and until there is intervention. As an example, the cultural upheaval of the 1950s and 1960s beginning with Elvis cracking the walls of convention is addressed in this book.

     However this current phenomenon is very different because it has no direction, no identifiable goals. There is currently a free-wheeling-anything-goes mentality raging throughout a large segment of the population in America and the world seemingly based on nothing more than how disrespectful, how weird, how physically ugly, how vulgar, how offensive, how irresponsible and ignorant can each individual be, and how much can each get away with? It strives to obtain nothing positive. Coupled with this are generations of Americans who expect everything and contribute nothing. Throw drug and alcohol abuse into the mix and we have an attack from within that is shaking the foundations of  < / S P A N > < s t 1 : c o u n t r y - r e g i o n>America.  This has nothing to do with race, it crosses all boundaries. It is a cultural problem.

     America is under multiple attacks from outside. But possibly the greatest threat is the disintegration from within. How many more blows can America withstand? America is not going to fall off of the face of the earth, but will you want to live in a second or third rate America, or an America under the financial or military control of  a foreign power? This book suggests some possible ways and reasons for offenders who are weakening America to straighten up and fly right! Without intervention it is my opinion that America is headed for a fall

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This is a true story about a two year old little boy. This little boy was our son. He has past on. I had a vision for his life. There was this unthinkable darkness of his life which was revealed at a later stage of his life. It was a time of darkness for me until the darkness came to the light after his death.

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     Although I may have put the cart before the horse in writing this paperback,  this educator-author still draws from teaching experience to promote an interest in everyday life and travel in the last century.  He combines three e-books (if the first can be located) and one paperback entitled: Wise Men Seek Him.  Fortunately I was in a home in which my parents stayed together for the life of their marriage, almost 50 years.  I know this relationship might be over emphasized at times, but it gave me more stability in my background and was an important factor in getting a graduate degree in the field of education.  In her later years, my mother opened up the doors of her home for church friends and services, after Dad Didlo passed away.  The home which my father provided, along with his wife and mother of five children...was a second  home for relatives in need of a place to stay with and without children, during mom's later years.

Phone poems are concise, precise, and often humorous 4 line verses that were originally written for the telephone answering machine. Volume 2, Simple Gifts,continues that tradition in the first part of the book with 333 such poems, mostly inspired by recent events in the author’s life, especially his adventures with his dachshund, Simon, his love of nature, its creatures, the flowers and elements in his wife’s garden (a new-to-the-garden old white door), the advent of winter and spring, angels, demons, the movements of planets and stars, some current events,etc. The second part of the book contains a different order of humorous verse based on events that occurred during the author’s past as he and his wife attempted to rear their 3 children and live together as a loving family. These longer poems, organized around the theme, Simple Gifts, are from varying points of view: father (My Son the Ninja), mother (My Flaw), but especially the children, as in the delightful Eyeball Soup, the poignant Clip-Clop the Wonder Horse, Nightmare,Pierced Ears, Daddy’s Nose, The Snicker-Snack Man, and more. The second volume of Phone Poems also contains another new (to these works) literary form,the parable, wherein the reader is invited to participate in discovering the meaning of a brief story. The most unusual of the 4 parables is The Text, told from the third person limited point of view of an angel who is given a difficult task by his ultimate superior.

Phone poems are concise, precise, and often humorous 4 line verses that were originally written for the telephone answering machine. Volume 2, Simple Gifts,continues that tradition in the first part of the book with 333 such poems, mostly inspired by recent events in the author’s life, especially his adventures with his dachshund, Simon, his love of nature, its creatures, the flowers and elements in his wife’s garden (a new-to-the-garden old white door), the advent of winter and spring, angels, demons, the movements of planets and stars, some current events,etc. The second part of the book contains a different order of humorous verse based on events that occurred during the author’s past as he and his wife attempted to rear their 3 children and live together as a loving family. These longer poems, organized around the theme, Simple Gifts, are from varying points of view: father (My Son the Ninja), mother (My Flaw), but especially the children, as in the delightful Eyeball Soup, the poignant Clip-Clop the Wonder Horse, Nightmare,Pierced Ears, Daddy’s Nose, The Snicker-Snack Man, and more. The second volume of Phone Poems also contains another new (to these works) literary form,the parable, wherein the reader is invited to participate in discovering the meaning of a brief story. The most unusual of the 4 parables is The Text, told from the third person limited point of view of an angel who is given a difficult task by his ultimate superior.

Phone poems are concise, precise, and often humorous 4 line verses that were originally written for the telephone answering machine. Volume 2, Simple Gifts,continues that tradition in the first part of the book with 333 such poems, mostly inspired by recent events in the author’s life, especially his adventures with his dachshund, Simon, his love of nature, its creatures, the flowers and elements in his wife’s garden (a new-to-the-garden old white door), the advent of winter and spring, angels, demons, the movements of planets and stars, some current events,etc. The second part of the book contains a different order of humorous verse based on events that occurred during the author’s past as he and his wife attempted to rear their 3 children and live together as a loving family. These longer poems, organized around the theme, Simple Gifts, are from varying points of view: father (My Son the Ninja), mother (My Flaw), but especially the children, as in the delightful Eyeball Soup, the poignant Clip-Clop the Wonder Horse, Nightmare,Pierced Ears, Daddy’s Nose, The Snicker-Snack Man, and more. The second volume of Phone Poems also contains another new (to these works) literary form,the parable, wherein the reader is invited to participate in discovering the meaning of a brief story. The most unusual of the 4 parables is The Text, told from the third person limited point of view of an angel who is given a difficult task by his ultimate superior.

About “Say It Like It Is.”

 

 

Over the course of the past fifty years, “Political Correctness” has morphed from a social nicety to a national enforcement of stupidity. Due to political correctness, common sense has become less important in our society than the need to be hypersensitive to each and every group of minorities within our borders. 

& n b s p ; & nbsp;          Liberals have worked slowly but steadily to promote and further the asinine concept of political correctness and have been successful in implementing it. We are so sensitive these days that the mere mention of a nationality or a particular behavior has people gasping and whispering words like bigot, hateful and intolerant. As a society, we’ve forgotten how to speak to one another in a truthful and direct manner. As a result, we have countless “Interpretational breakdowns” or “Misunderstandings” on a personal, professional and political basis every day. These “Misunderstandings,” as Liberals call them, are the result of our inability to actually convey our thoughts and intentions in a direct and non-politically correct manner.

& n b s p ; & nbsp;          Sensitivity to the most mundane and insignificant aspects of life has turned Americans into a weak and litigious people who are neither respected nor respectable. Few people in our country actually have the inner fortitude to ignore the Liberals rules regarding speech and “Appropriate topics,” and actually, “Say it like it is.”

& n b s p ; & nbsp;          I hope to point out how accustomed we’ve become to political correctness and how completely asinine the whole thing really is. Political correctness is the best example of what happens when Liberals work to gradually normalize and institute a concept that has had nothing but detrimental affects on our country.

Where has political correctness led us? It’s no longer acceptable to call the Chinese, Chinese. We can’t refer to a Black man as a Black man. The word criminal should no longer be used to describe an individual who breaks the law. Pride in < s t 1 : c o u n t r y -region>America is far less PC than an animosity toward it. No blame can be put on those who choose to act in an unacceptable manner. We’ve been trained to think of wealthy people as bad individuals and poor people as victims. Armed conflict is no longer seen as the protection of our way of life as much as it is seen as an attempt on the part of our evil leaders to conquer and occupy foreign lands. Political correctness teaches us “Tolerance” and “Diversity,” and we can see where that has led us. The teaching of manners and discipline to our children are foreign concepts to today’s parents. What used to be black and white is now a fuzzy shade of gray. Obvious facts are now extensively debated. And common sense…just take a look around.

Our society is inundated with news stories of atrocious behavior. Rapes and murders and school shootings, molestation, terrorism and hatred toward our country by its own citizens are all crops we’re currently reaping. It’s to be expected after sowing the seeds of political correctness for half a century.

Take some time to think about what we’ve been conditioned to think and how we’ve been trained to talk. This is a perfect example of the implementation of liberalism on American society. It’s not good. It’s destroying our strength and our unity. It’s very likely to destroy more than that.

It’s time to ignore political correctness and just say it like it is.

Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that  it will be possible to do away with the state.  But what do they mean by that?  What is the state, after all?  What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions?  Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state?  Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state?  Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?

Wayne Price is a longtime antiwar, human rights, and union militant.  He has been a member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, the Love and Rage Anarchist Federation, and the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists.  His writings appear in the Utopian, the Northeastern Anarchist, and in monthly articles on www.Anarkismo.net.

Man’s behavior has become excessively wicked, and has done violence to his own soul. Despite the subpoena of the Ten Commandments, he has not obeyed the lawful order of God’s government. He is thereby held in contempt of the Supreme Court of Heaven. The contemnor’s charge is beyond reasonable doubt, having impaired the dignity of the law and failure to respect his Creator. Evidently, his behavior has been disorderly, insolent, and brazen. Therefore, a bench warrant with a penal notice has been issued for him to be arraigned before the Supreme Judge of the universe, (Revelation 14: 6-7).

 

This book reminds us that our own epoch, like others before has its own assumptions and illusions about life. Each generation is influenced by the previous one, and any defense of virtues becomes an offense. People simply adjust to rising temperature of wickedness. Repentance is the greatest disinfectant for the stench of a sinful soul. In this confusion, Christ is more than the spider in the web of human affairs: more than the bee in the hive of life’s circumstances. He is often the honey in the comb that sweetens life’s bitterness.