0 An Essay on Spirituality and Creativity or “what is that light bulb that lights up above a cartoon characters head.?” Picture a scene from the 1820’s of a twilit city street in Germany. ¹.”A figure appears, lurching along like a crazy man, rushing, dawdling, waving his arms, muttering hoarsely. Intensity blazes from his face.…

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0 Yesterday I flew from San Jose, California, to Austin, Texas, via LA. Taking a valuable guitar on a flight is always a little nerve-racking. I used to check my instrument in, protected by a case so hard it must have been forged in a special kiln on the planet Vulcan. Amazingly, the case invariably…

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0 Monk Dude’s Log: Earth Day 21, 550. 59 solar orbits completed. On November the 5th, when I wailed my first wail in Napier General Hospital, 320,000 other Earthlings also took birth. The day this army of Scorpios emerged into your world was a Saturday. The next day God did it all over again, even though He was…

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