NEWEST FAMILY PHOTO!
with a baker's dozen.
Including the @LEGO_Group typewriter, right on the piano where such things belong.
Books include: biography; YA contemporary standalone; YA (adult crossover) fantasy duology, companion series, fantasy trilogy, Historical fantasy
The Sapphire Legend Part I & II, Silhouettes, End of Ever After, Lies of Golden Straw, Beautiful to Me, Human Again, Heart of a Hunter, Rabbi JJ Hecht, Shadow & Crown, Light & Kingdom, Spark & Heir, Lost Shores of Thonis
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About a year ago, these days:
The Lie of "Speak Your Truth"
Revisit, or read for the first time.
Come visit and see what else we've got on the 'stack.
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Before formulating arguments about why blasphemy laws never work, before outlining the decisive points in favor of unfettered free speech, before launching into lectures about censorship and cancelations, separation of church and state, rights and freedoms and liberties, hypocrisy and hysteria, gather those excellent points, pack them tight, then set them aside. Before even reaching the decision of best, most practical enforceability, truth and necessity must first be asserted...
New Essay:
"A Case Against Blasphemy"
Free speech cannot be absolute where it portends absolute destruction.
It's more than just words or actions.
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Instead of an upbeat message of the future is yours if you build it!, the young are frightened into believing the world can disappear in any moment which lacks monumental change. Who wouldn’t retreat into the safely compacted world of the screen, into numbing, mindless scrolling? Who wouldn’t hide away in inanities or wholly performative emotions? Who could, and not eventually suffer for it?...
...Potential dreamers have been denied the greatest gift of mankind walking on two legs, whose natural line of sight is the horizon. How easy it is to look up from there, but only if you haven’t been beaten until your neck only curves down. Only if you haven’t given your brain over to a device, instead of given your mind over to devising.
New essay!
With the gradual changes of society over the last several decades, with the continual push for publicity and explicitness, what have we left for imagination?
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