Save Humanity From Extinction
Unbridled Capitalism Here’s another essay composed during my morning Twitter activity. I personally can’t think of a better remedy to save humanity than to — not do away with capitalism — but to politically take charge and set the agenda for capitalism. What many call “über-capitalism” or “super-capitalism” has effectively
Religions Are Us
Religions Are Us © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Sometimes, my creative-process begins as a multi-part tweet on Twitter. Tweets under the hash-tag #FirstCupOfCoffee, contain stuff that comes to me during morning meditation. My first cup is for “the universe,” which is the closest thing to saying “morning prayer”
Ontario International Airport
The Airport ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com We could get there on our bikes… Like so many of the childhood wonders around Ontario, California in the 1950’s — such as the Chino Dairy District, mountainous Euclid Avenue above 24th Street, and the Cucamonga Canyon Wash — the Airport was
How to play Backgammon
Clean Water
©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com
Man v. Nature
The Planet of War ©2012,2016 Vernon Miles Kerr, ©2021 VernonMilesKerr.com In the Judeo-Christian view of Utopia there are endless rolling hills of grass with sheep, goats and cattle being led around by happy, pastoral families. In the Bible, no fewer than eighty-three times, God promised the Israelites “a
Happiness
Gratitude ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Yesterday, a guy I follow on Twitter asked a challenging question: “The secret of happiness is__” (no restriction on word count.) Yet, I immediately thought of one word that covers it. Gratitude. That’s it. Without gratitude there can be no happiness.
Economic Feudalism
Humanity’s Big Two Tweeted March 24, 2021 ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com #MorningMeditations (thread) I’m not a #politician, nor a #theologian — so take this for what it’s worth. I’m an #Agnostic who SUSPECTS that there’s a supreme intelligence infusing our Universe. So, I
History
History (c) 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Yesterdays connot be viewed, Only proposed by the mess they left behind: Scraps of sloughed-off skin, Bits of fabric, shards of bone, Caprolites in caves, Or marks left on their walls, By ancestors extrapolating That we'd be around someday
Poetry
Scolding ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Scolding isn’t instructing Neither is it mentoring, No matter how needful The recipient. Scolding doesn’t inspire But secretly infuriates; It constipates growth, Withers self-worth. Scolding’s intonation is downward, Like the one for alarm: “Look out!” “STOP!” “You asshole!” “You
What If? © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com March 1, 2021 What if God purposely developed humans by evolution; giving us our physical drives to protect self, to reproduce, to form societies — blending us, hybridizing us from the many strains of ancestors — evolving us a little more, until the
Evolution
What If? © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com March 1, 2021 What if God purposely developed humans by evolution; giving us our physical drives to protect self, to reproduce, to form societies — blending us, hybridizing us from the many strains of ancestors — evolving us a little more, until the
Check out this blog. It conforms to my experience in learning to speak several “second” languages. What sounds “weird” and “embarrassing” to you, sounds perfectly normal to the native-speaker of any language. More later. VMK
Insurrection
The People as Rubes ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Why is there so much unrest in our country? What, pray-tell, are the Extreme Left and Extreme Right so upset about? It’s mainly an unresponsive government — a perception by both extremes that both political parties are run by
Ecology
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made © 2021 Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com #MorningMeditations This morning I’m thinking of how every little ache and pain is merely evidence of the marvelous communication-system going on within the human body. King David of Israel said once. “…I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Ps 139:
Origin of Politics
© 2021 Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Sometimes a multi-part posting on Twitter turns into a mini essay. My conclusion on this thread is that the elimination of chaos and uncertainty comes at a price: a giving up of some freedom. When the trade-off is voluntary and rescindable by voting, then