AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

10/3/15

That Instant

you realize guns are the problem and the big "and" in the equation may also be the lack of physical harm and being able to identify with physical pain.  Emotional pain is very hard to describe and very very difficult to relate.  Physical pain is universal and grounds to the primal circuit.  Everyone understands.  Emotional or mental pain, few will understand or be able to identify with you without deep and lengthy contact.  Anyone can fire a gun.  Many fewer can speak.  Fewer still can converse.  The problem is there.

Everyone gets in a tiff about gun control.  Fine.  If you are not willing to attack and control it from the top, at least allow people to begin walking at the foundation.  I don't know if the previous sentence ends with a question mark or a period.  Violence and communication can be quite the self reciprocating machine and it's something else to be inside of it and hoping someone would stick a bar into the spokes of the wheel.
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