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Short answer: over on Substack As many of you are aware, we are laying out our plans for a major reboot of the website. In the meantime we have scaled back most of our frenetic… Read more

We have each been given a gift: the ability to disappoint each other. Every redux attempts to dig a bit deeper into the mystery. (You may need a free Substack subscription to see the entire… Read more

It is the silence between the words which give the words meaning. It doesn’t seem like silence should need context, but then again, as China Mieville has written, “In the right context you can make… Read more

Charlieism #3 (redux) Anyone can be world famous. You just need to size your world appropriately. ~~~ Get all the details of this redux over on the Proctor Charlie Collective Substack… The Collective is inviting… Read more

Sunday Simple Sermon #4 (Dec 10, 2023) reconsidered…We impoverish ourselves when we spurn another’s truth. – Brother Them ~~~ At first blush, this seemed like a truism, but today it occurs that even a truism… Read more

Bardism #2 (March 29, 2024) reconsidered…But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, than that which withering on the virgin thorn grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream We chose to… Read more

Draft Fiction: Gold in Zion By Neil Ostrom Chapter Six: Chaos (Part 2) The piercing shriek of Sister’s voice shocked me out of my perplexity and drove my frozen body into motion. It turned out… Read more

Sunday Simple Sermon #3 (Dec 3, 2023) reconsidered…The world need not be so very magical, it need only be magical enough. – Proctor Charlie ~~~ We want to be absolutely clear here regarding any use… Read more

Charlieism #1 (Nov 23, 2023) reconsidered…Perhaps the deepest human need is little more than one more opportunity to be generous. ~~~ In retrospect, more than a year later, we have to question why, if generosity… Read more