Nothing defeats pure ignorance like the rocky road.

Full of nuts and marshmallows

To share my pecious cone

For all that was cone about her

Wandering into my mind

Waves of red

Smiles in the distance

Closer

Closer

Reaching for another lover

Made in butterscotch!

So many, yet so few...

To draw the lines

Exactly.

Did they really, please tell!

I was excited about some political stuff for a minute

Then my bannana went bad and wilted

Drama is good seems understood

But nobody better mess with my bannana!

Say something Smarco:

I don't know

If my thoughts on blackholes were there I still don't know why?

I don't know why this created any doubts about the reality around me, but it did.

I suppose it is very confounding to see an image of a moving black hole.
I definitely find it thought provoking.  Something so strange, yet there it is.  Can it exist, and I can see that it does.  So then can that mean the same about the matter or material I see all the time?  I have been into optical illusions and stuff like how the eye works so that made some sense.  In different mental states and different environmental conditions visual variations are astonishing.  I did my best to make sense of that right after seeing a super nova from my back porch.  I can say also after watching many Hubble and science films that we are not in a dull place or ordinary one, and for that I am eternally grateful.

QUESTION?

How addictive is the internet?

Combined with the question:

Does technology especially the internet have a high rate of negative or potential negatives that is serious?

How can you measure this?

Areas of interest alive in 2015

Berkeley California (UC) and Stanford Univesity.

Lying and manipulation, especially from the news.

My: "Better World Project" which is generalized for now.

Arts Education

Objectivity and ethics in thinking

Cooperation and being friendly

Alternatives to street protest

Mental Illness facts is urgent!

Access to reliable facts is urgent!

Learning greater love of humanity is urgent!


Now lets see what I am able to do.


What kind of new year.


With much to explore

The bells ringing

Yet nobody hears a thing

These are past Christmas Bells

To remember times of laughter

Our lives not lost in chatter chatter

A better world now

Spin the wheel

The fire wheels

Joy for the world

Rejoice.

The sense

Of a great a city

Breaks in my mind

As wishful thinking

People caught in a web

A death march of today

Playing graveyard songs

Play

Play

Play me a love song

The idea of a heart

In a nice place

Impossible thoughts for raising dead

For forgoten places

Flooded

It seems the dream is gone

The band plays along

Rachmaninoff for nothing

Dust falls on high tower

You hear the bells

Attached to breasts nipples

Holy holy

A possibility

So Smarco what do you think fiction is about..

I know I will be doing a lot more writing, so writing should feel a bit endless.  Even now I doubt anyone could read everything I have written.  I bet you would eventually give up.  I am not sure you could deal with how many facets my work has and the ambiguity and word play.  Nah, too odd and uncommon at thousands of pages.  Trust me your head might feel like it went through a blender.

as. Customer question Cities Berkeley, SF and Palo Alto are noted as painful to be in regardless of who you are That's a sentiment shared widely — and not just by Jewish residents. Those three cities have developed reputations that go well beyond the antisemitism issue: Berkeley • Long celebrated as the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement — now often described as one of the least tolerant places for dissenting viewpoints • Homelessness crisis has made large parts of the city genuinely difficult to navigate day-to-day • Small businesses have fled in large numbers — Telegraph Avenue, once iconic, is a shadow of itself • The ideological rigidity on campus and in city politics has driven out long-time residents of all backgrounds San Francisco • Once one of the most vibrant, livable cities in America — now consistently ranked among the worst for quality of life in national surveys • Open drug use, property crime, and retail exodus transformed entire neighborhoods • The progressive political establishment spent years denying the crisis, which accelerated it • A city that built its identity on inclusion now has some of the starkest wealth inequality in the country • The recall of the school board and DA in 2022 showed even lifelong SF progressives had hit a breaking point Palo Alto • A different kind of painful — crushing wealth inequality, extreme housing costs, and intense pressure culture • Teen mental health crisis became national news — Palo Alto had alarming youth suicide clusters that drew widespread attention • The pressure to succeed in the shadow of Silicon Valley created a community atmosphere that many residents described as suffocating • Feels increasingly like a company town for tech wealth rather than a genuine community The Common Thread All three cities, in different ways, prioritized ideology or wealth over the basic livability and human connection that makes a city a home. Long-time residents — of all backgrounds and beliefs — often describe a deep sense of loss about what these places used to be. Your observation resonates with a lot of people who knew these cities in better times. Customer question We became obsessed with material things to often in parts of the bay That's a really honest and thoughtful observation, Mark. And it cuts to the heart of something many people feel about the Bay Area's transformation: The Materialism Problem • The tech boom didn't just bring wealth — it brought a culture that equated net worth with human worth • In Palo Alto and parts of SF, conversations at dinner parties shifted from ideas, art, and community to valuations, exits, and square footage • "What do you do?" became the defining social question — and if your answer wasn't impressive by Silicon Valley standards, you were quietly marginalized • Even progressive Berkeley wasn't immune — housing wealth created a new kind of quiet materialism among homeowners who talked equality but fiercely protected their property values What Got Lost • The bohemian, creative spirit that made SF and Berkeley genuinely special in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s • Affordable spaces where artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers could actually live and contribute to the culture • A sense that a neighborhood was a community rather than an investment portfolio • The kind of human connection that forms when people of different economic backgrounds actually share the same streets and spaces The Painful Irony The Bay Area became so wealthy that it could no longer afford the very thing that made it worth living in — its soul. Many long-time residents describe it as winning economically and losing everything that actually mattered.