Lest We Forget our Origins ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Caution, Construction Zone. Ongoing editing in process. 🙂 No individual human is very far removed from the little primate bands of our ancestors, which were probably much like those of modern-day Gorillas, Bonobos, and Chimpanzees — social creatures whose very
Cults
©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Religions are not monolithic, even the most extreme cults cannot TOTALLY control what’s going on in the adherents’ minds. I was in a relatively benign “christian” one for 25 years. There were always these … doubts… especially about certain passages in the Old
California
Across the Mountains ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com 1949 Over the years, Mom and Pop had tried California, but something always drew them back East. Maybe they pined for that slower pace, a less crowded place. But when I was six, back they came, Spanning the Continental Divide,
Fashion
This week, our featured writer is Manfred Wolf, Professor of English (Emeritus) at San Francisco State University and currently, leturer at University of San Francisco’s Fromm Institue. Those several series of lectures are avalable as free podcasts at his website, SuvivalInParidse.com. Fashion in Ideas © 2021 by Manfred Wolf,
Consciousness Beyond the Grave
The God Question ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com This is another one of those essays incubated on Twitter, @kerr_vernon , then hatched on WordPress. The God Question. It’s the BIG question. Most of today’s world-ugliness is caused by conflicts arising from it. Survey the news, for
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