: About Me

With all the flaunting of credentials and pseudo-credentials around the Internet by way of establishing Authority, ought I to start flaunting my own?

I have enough letters after my name to know exactly how little they can mean. I have enough published material under my belt to pity those who broke down and self-published, although I wonder why they so often feel the need to conceal that part of it. I can write in any venue with which I can establish a business relationship - that is the part of writing which contributes to setting food on the table - but never can I write a single thing which clashes with silence. There is simply too much wonder out there, too much to see, hear, discover, resonate in the deep places. How could I drown it out with verbous graffiti?

I write what I see, in fiction as in non-fiction; and I try continually to see things as they are, not as I would have them be. I try always to remember that the silence of other people does not imply agreement. I fear neither written nor spoken word nor what numbers have to tell me. After all, why should I fear what is? I have no partisan agenda.

What all this means, you can decide for yourself.

I could tell you the absolute facts, and still they might mean something entirely different from what you might assume. I could claim letters or a collar, and you would never know whether either or both were purchased on the Internet, or glossed, or a lifetime work and vocation. Yet however I might choose to frame myself here, however realistic a name I might choose to write under (and you are on the Internet, how can you know if it is truly my own?): my writing shows the truth of me.

Light has always shone most clearly through a writer's creations, and the articles and stories and poetry on this site are no exception. I am a channel: not a lens, not a frame, not a filtre. I say what I see, about our world, our universe, ourselves - but without your reading, I am only an empty mirror. And with your reading?

empty mirror
why can you do nothing
but reflect?

Sports & Recreation > Olympics London's 2012 Olympics logo: What were they thinking?

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To be sure, the newest addition to the family of Olympic logos is - unusual. Its jagged, vibrant *young* stylisation is unlike anything we have seen at the Olympics, ever. No question, it will be one of the most memorable logos of recent history. If a logo's primary purpose is to draw attention, the London 2012 Olympics logo has succeeded. It has become tradition over the past several decades for Olympic logos either to have a soft, clean representation of the city name and year (which an earlier version of the London logo attempted, very much unmemorably), or to stylise the human body in ...

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