There are transcendent days in one’s life, for good or for ill. Day’s when everything changes, when new paths are trod and old ones abandoned. The month of October for some reason has been transcendent for me. October, in the northern hemisphere: browns and gold and oranges where green had…

Lighting swirls amidst deep, dark shadows, thunder echoing off of silent cliffs somewhere in what will someday be called Cambria. Hints of far off cataclysms, dankly diluvial, sail on primordial winds as dusk’s crimson fingers claw at night’s sapphire, diamond flecked cloak. Albian haze swiftly quickens into mist, threatening to…

Introduction: For some reason, many people associate the term “metaphysics” with beliefs outside scientific norms, beliefs in magic or miracles or ghosts or religion, but in reality, the term applies to one of the four main branches of philosophy (those being metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and ethics). Metaphysics is technically then…

Today, January 30, 2023, I am proud to be a Latin American, the place where, perhaps more than in any other part of the world, there is a supranational institution truly dedicated to the protection of the rights of our population and its members against the corruption, ineptitude and violence…

Hoy, 30 de enero del 2023, soy orgulloso de ser Latinoamericano donde, quizás más que en cualquier otra parte del mundo, existe una institución supraestatal realmente dedicada a la protección de los derechos de nuestros pueblos y de sus miembros en frente a la corrupción, la ineptitud y la violencia…

Theia: Terra’s bride, Luna’s mother, A passionate meeting, a vicious mating, a climactic birth shrouded in violence. _______ © Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2023; all rights reserved. Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution. Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently…

While doing research on a “ reflection on sentience, self-awareness and their possible existence in non-biological forms”, I came across the following information, admittedly in a Wikipedia article (a starting point for research rather than a reliable source). I share it because so much of the information we receive lacks…

Poetry is hard to define. Sometimes, it’s best defined by denying those aspects that most associate with a poem. Rhyme, meter, strict structure, even alliteration and consonance. Then again, perhaps the definition of poetry, of what constitutes a poem, is very personal. To me, the essence of a poem is…

Phineas was in a pithy mood, although he didn’t know why. Fortunately for him, he didn’t care why, he was just enjoying it. Perhaps today would be the day he’d finally write something, and if he did, why he might someday get it published. Phineas was not the easiest name…