“All the Gods, all the Heavens, all the Hells, are within you” -Joseph Campbell from “The Power of Myth” The face of horror has it’s own reality and it’s own myth. The six years since the...

The recent funerals of The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and Senator John McCain demonstrate to me what a classless and disposable culture we have become. I never could imagine in my most...

“I think of Aretha as our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows. Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain……Anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical...

“We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, see.” -Jimi Hendrix discussing his interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner, August 1969 49 years later, Jimi...

As I wrote in the July 20th Politichicks article, “Surviving Loss With Humanity Intact: Flesh and Bone,” this has been a year of intense loss. Yet, it is the memories that soothe me in this path...

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of Justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated...

“Tension and temptation, diving into darkness Try to shed your skin, still what you are inside Lord, I’m a-learning There’s something greater Than walking on this bridge of fear..” Lyric excerpt...

Proverbs 18:5 It is not right to to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent When I consider the legacy of President Barack Obama; I find little to be impressed by. The Affordable Care...

“Holy Mother, where are you? Tonight I feel broken in two”-Eric Clapton, Holy Mother March 12, 2018: My Mother Jean Ingmire, dies after a long battle with congestive heart failure. Even when one...

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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” -William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside  Like Mr. Burroughs, I too have embraced the cat inside....

“I’ve seen the needle and the damage done, a little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s like a setting sun…” -Neil Young, Needle and the Damage Done The recent disclosure by T...

“Television eye before you got me hooked I used to read Now you’re by my bedside shining empty lights on me.” -Television Eye, John Mayall If you’re getting your news from the current American...

Books continue to inform my intellect. I have to have the physical presence of a book in my hands. No Kindle reading for me. My literary habit usually involves reading two to six books a month....

The recent passing of Muscle Shoals Producer/Musician/Songwriter Rick Hall makes me pause once more. On a human level, it makes you think of your own mortality and the impact that we can have on...

PolitiChicks contributor Michael Ingmire continuously fights to bring justice to his nephew Sean Smith's violent (and unnecessary) death in Benghazi.

“In beauty I walk. With beauty before me I walk. With beauty behind me I walk. With beauty around me I walk. With beauty above me I walk. With beauty below me I walk.” -Traditional Navajo Prayer...

“When the train, it left the station with two lights on behind. Well, the blue light was my blues And the red light was my mind.”-Robert Johnson, Love in Vain I am sitting in an Amtrak station in...