Have You Listened?

These Bolivian citizens are patiently waiting their turn to hopefully buy a few gallons of gas where we are visiting right now. …

Now that the pandemic has lightened up, people are returning to their natural ways of being without restraints or restrictions. For My consort Carter and myself, we love to experience life through the prisms, the eyes of different cultures. We are travel junkies! …

Here I am, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, escaping the wrath that beastly hurricane Ian hurled on our small Florida town as well as the increasingly tense vibes emanating from the crazy Russian threatening nuclear attack. This is a time in my life when I feel like following my bliss even…

Knowing somebody in childhood is such a privilege, a true connection to a person’s real essence. I feel very close to John Chitester because we shared so many silly childhood goings-on, even though we didn’t get to spend much time together once we reached that inferior state of existence we…

Yesterday I was waiting in a doctor’s office with my beloved, without access to a sufficient Wifi connection, and all the great thoughts I spewed furiously onto my phone’s app by fat-finger typing via a Medium post appears to be … gone!…instead of gloriously shared with the world. Does this…

A deathly ill woman was wheeled in beside me as I lay after removal of badly impacted wisdom teeth, of all ridiculous things to be hospitalized for. The year was 1969. She was incapable of speaking as she moaned and writhed in agony. …

So many issues we humans care about. When children lie slain in their graves, do we cry out for their lost lives and who should or should not have the right to Be … one gunshot away from Not Being. Or do we wonder even more whether we’re born the…

(note to lit agents: taking inquiries for the following excerpt of a nonfiction in progress, and a completed ecofiction MS: dearteza@gmail.com and see tezalord.com for my 4 other published books. gracias) I patted Pogo’s head, and whispered to him “I guess this is it, old buddy. I may not see…

If you’re like me, sometimes I get overwhelmed with … life! It just seems so dern complicated. Sometimes. But then, at other times, when I’m relaxed and fully in my own power … life seems so easy it’s almost like a dream. Today I’ve had both feelings. In tune with…