Fellow condemned: Can we let down our petty competitive veils for a moment And admit what we have had in common? Yes, we've all had moments of joy that kept us enduring The grief, The failures, The disease, The loss of our senses — of smell, of sight, of
On the day after Thanksgiving I sat in front of our gas log in the dark of early morning, as the valley outside filled with fog and my neighbors' rooftops took on the expected white coating of frost, and I felt grateful for the warmth and for being able
I love how President Biden acknowledged the results of the 2024 US Election and I love his promise to allow a peaceful transition from his Administration to that of President-elect Trump. Much like the "ideal" Christian does, President Biden is "walking the walk" not just "
Civil Longevity (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Considering that the life expectancy of a human in the ancient world was around 30 years, how were those ancient architectural wonders, like The Great Pyramids, the Greek Pantheon and the Roman Colosseum, ever completed? It obviously took multiple
A Scenario for a Novel Synopsis “Return of The Astrolance” (a novel) © 2024 by Vernon Miles Kerr Working Scenario ________________________________ From “A History of Irth’s Twenty-First Senturee” Excerpted from “The Monsters-Inlet Written Sheets:” “This Senturee (Consisting of100 orbits of Planet (then called ‘Irth’) began with the destruction of a pair
Discernment ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, and VernonMilesKerr.com That old “philosohy book” we call “The Bible” opines about “discernment” at least 30 times. I’m quoting 30 here, from various translations, (not as an endorsement but just to give the reader a feeling for how “Western Society” has viewed
The Yin and Yang of Status ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com As much as we modern humans decry status-seeking, and openly ridicule people, like the man above, flaunting his world’s most-famous, well-crafted, accurate, and expensive wristwatch, isn’t there a part of us, deep in our
©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Here’s my pic from 2 days ago. This is accurate and un-retouched. It reaveals what’s left of me after about 3 weeks of daily radiation therapy and three cycles of weekend chemotherapy infusions. My worst pain is not from the
The Church of Vern ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Chapter One 1In the beginning was the word, and the word was with the primate and the word was crude, perhaps a grunt, for “yes,” and two for “no.” The word was now with the human and the
Kingdoms are Whack (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Mar 15, 2023. Y’all probably know I create these “Cuppas” when my mind is “hot off the press” of talking to the Universe through prayer. This one came as soon as I started praying. I
This is the first post of a new blog by Vernon Miles Kerr, writer by avocation even if not fully by vocation. Everything here will be presented on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. If you like it, that makes me happy. If you don’t like it, I’m not surprised. Everyone
(c) 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr If a Corporation is a person, it is a very privileged one. In addition to taking away the legal fiction of “corporate personhood,” we need to change the requirements of public corporations so that some benefit to the public must be proven and audited. Right
Its impact will benefit the entire world, not just Medieval Europe From that “old” Renaissance, Europe got a new flourishing of the arts, but the “New World,” in the Western Hemisphere, got invaded — and, the indigenous ihabitants lost much of their culture, and many had the “Judaeo/Christian” religion, forced
Our Not-so Brave New World ©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr, VermonMilesKerr.com Humanity’s very-recent advances in Medicine, Science, the Internet—and the bewildering array of consumer gewgaws and doo-dads suddenly available—seem to point to an amazing future ahead. We seem to be looking at a Brave New World, with
©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr. com American Saga Blankets of ice pull back, a continent is revealed, Green, virgin and filled with promise
Instalment One | January 6, 2017 This series of articles will offer my nearly eight decades of California impressions and experience, gained as a 1949 immigrant from Alabama. My main motivation is to dispel the widely held impression, held by those East of the Sierra Nevada, that California is all palm-bordered
This morning one of my millennial sons went over to Yosemite National Park to join a local hiking club for a hike up the "Four Mile Trail." This hike goes from Yosemite Valley's floor all the way,straight up, to the overlook at Glacier Point. Until
© 2024 VernonMilesKerr.com Which bible do you favor? This is the question asked Of all who are trying to "figure out" the "God Question." Whether the KJV, the RSV, the NIV, the NWE, or the Book of Mormon, One must chose. "Programs, programs, you can&
Liberty or License ©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr She who stands sentinel at the gate of our land, Constructed lovingly from steel, copper, mortar and sand, So revered by Americans, Native and not, Is only a symbol for the Angel of our better nature. Unlike her image, trapped by the feet
Introduction Why Skip the 22nd Century? This is not an attempt to write a chronological recounting of World History or like "The Outline of History" by H.G.Wells, which chronicled the history of the world from the origin of the Earth to the First World War. It
As all you current subscribers know, I have been "fighting" Cancer for more than two years. Apart from a few moments of encouragement, my diagnostic CT scans and PET Scans seem to indicate less and less time left on my "life-meter" — especially the last two. In
by Vernon Miles Kerr Introduction Because I have already freely shared online all of the amazing, weird stuff in this post for the near seventeen-years it has been happening, and as I am now facing impending death, I have little worry about the government not liking anyone challenging their clumsy
©2024 Vernon Miles Kerr In a nightmare I was abducted and foced to answer For Earth's Species-long love of swords. These imagined globe-headed, fly-eyed ETs, Sitting above me on the dais of some galactic panel, Must not be telepathic, or they would know I'm as guilty
©2024 Vernon Miles Kerr Because no living person has seen God, God exists only in our sundry minds. My God couldn't be the same as your God Since both are figments, not experience. And, because anyone can claim any assemblage of books is sanctified By wrapping the chosen
Green ©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr I am Vernon Vernon was "green" in Latin. My thumb is green, My mind is green, My spirit is green, From the forest duff on a trail through this grove of giants I stand in reverence Contemplating the rough, expansive, red-brown foot of
This poem laments our connection with DNA that seems to inevitably revert to the "corruptness" posed by such 19th Century thinkers as Rousseau and Thomas Hobbes. But in "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow we see that Rousseau, Hobbes and others posed these negative
T H E R E W A S E V E R B L O O D (c) 2022 VernonMilesKerr.com When was there never blood? There was ever blood. From the moment of birth, We are slathered in Mother’s Blood. From the dawn of our carnivority We drew
I guess the first thought of anyone who has been given a diagnosis of terminal Cancer is "I've gotta get right with God." When I received that diagnosis in August of 2022, those were my thoughts. For those of you who know me best and for
While 4-letter words are socially unacceptable There is a three-letter word which is worse: "Too." As in, "too this" or "too that." Why do we do that to each other? "You are too emotional." "You are too stoic." "You
KNOCK, knock, knock ... © 2024 by vernonmileskerr.com KNOCK... KNOCK... KNOCK... DOC-trine... DOC-trine... DOC-trine... The sound of the lid Being nailed on the box Where God is kept: Safely managed, Bound and packaged, Simplified, Demystified, Proprietarized, And monetized. knock... knock... knock... The Real God is calling — That still, small voice In
Autobiography | Thanks for the Ride Thanks for the Ride © 2020, 2023 BY VERNON MILES KERR, VERNONMILESKERR.COM Introduction Gratitude. That’s what inspired the title of this piece. “Thanks for the Ride,” is addressed to the Great Spirit of Spirits for the interesting life I have lived, the interesting people
© 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com 1949 Over the years Mom and Pop had tried California, Butsomething 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 Contenintal Divide, Several mountain ranges and