Category Archives: culture

A Long Lost Letter of The Wall

March 17, 2021 – 2:32 am

In the Autumn of 1997 Ty Spaulding and I resided in a roughly renovated schoolhouse west of Galway. The Atlantic Ocean was a five-minute walk away. The waves pounded the shore. Summer was gone for good. We were surrounded by rain-swept bogs, fog-wreathed mountains, and the damp beneath our feet. Fall was the season of […]

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A Hobo’s Song

January 29, 2021 – 9:32 pm

The other day I was driving down Dekalb Avenue and read an open-call sign for workers. DRIFTERS WANTED. I blinked and the offer of paradise vanished jarring my eyes back into focus. DRIVERS WANTED. What a difference a single letter makes, then again I’ve always sought something more than the world has to offer and […]

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The Ghosts Of Neanderthals

November 1, 2020 – 6:56 pm

I have wandered through the caves near our rice farm in Ban Nok, Thailand. I shut off my light to be immediately cast into utter darkness. Not even a Neanderthal could’t see their hand in such complete blackness. The creation legend from the Old Testament’s Genesis claimed that on the first day of Creation Elohim […]

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The Presence Of Neanderthals

October 30, 2020 – 11:38 am

Modern human anthropologists estimate that Homo Neanderthalensis existed from 300,000 BN or Before Now until extinction by extermination by genocide by Homo Sapiens, climate change, or disease around 30,000 BN, however the Neanderthal gene remained intact across the present-day Northern Hemisphere with approximately 1–4% of genomes of Eurasians, Oceanians, Native Americans, and North Africans from […]

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ZEN AND WISDOM OF LIFE

May 29, 2014 – 12:01 pm

Many of expat westerners live in the Orient without fully understanding the spirituality of the East. We are trapped by the Ten Commandments or our own preconceived notions of life. All humans might have to pull down their pants to go the bathroom, but few farangs will stand on the toilet seat to take a […]

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