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It's good to write. Writing is a kind of therapy. It is a sign and a pathway to good mental health, even if sometimes it doesn't feel at all like that.

Spinning words with others is also a popular activity. No matter how good a person is with words, when it comes to the with-others part, there are some considerations.

Readers are few. Audiences are still there, but readers are few. Some published and reviewed writers I know only have a few readers, their writing groups. The overabundance of television and video have made mostly the only paid writers into craft writers.

"Free your mind" means...

I actually always wondered. There's Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" in which he sings, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds." The movie The Matrix also gets into this idea of minds that are slaves.

I came across some of these ideas reading writers like Franz Fanon and other post-colonial theorists.

I have another book of poetry in me about Japan, where I spent some time living and working while participating in the world's biggest international exchange program, The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (http://www.jetprogramme.org/).

I was stationed in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture.

The book of poetry requires me to revisit Japan for an extended period of time. When I was there, I already had my academic training and this collection of poems. I focused in Japanese poetics and I began studying the language.

I even inquired about it and so as soon as I can afford to place an advertisement for Mikka Mi Amor on Dave Sperling's Web site: Dave's ESL Cafe (www.daveseslcafe.com), I will.

One of the things that I get in trouble for with Mikka Mi Amor is that it is self-gratuitous, that whole, it's my wonderful life and I write poetry, so let me write about my wonderful life kind of thing...

That most certainly is not Mikka Mi Amor, though some poems may tend to go that way and many people will misread it that way.

The great cause, the cause of true virtue as understood by Professor Bloom, today is freedom and the place where that great moral test is being fought is in the open source software movement.

The reason why this is so important is not necessarily for the software itself, though the software is of vital (life-giving) importance. The reason why the test for freedom in software is so important is because free software enables freer expression. There isn't even a pay-to-play requirement, though hardware is still an issue.

I'm curious about the extent to which the pleasure-seeking trait common to all humans is connected to how we operate when we are perceived to be at our best.

I thought I had a clear understanding of dualistic religions until recently, so there's more for me to find out. I write that because surely there is something to the idea of also being a pain-seeking life form, but for now, I'll stick to pleasure.

The Show -- Narrative and Agency

There are a number of ways to look at this, but I suppose in its essence it is simply attention-getting. For Sustainability to be sustainable, it must capture the attention of the masses.

Precision is everything. Precision is what makes one doctor better than another, one driver better than another, one basketball player better than another. It is frustrating to be around people who aren't as precise.

And there is acceptable precision and then there is superb precision. Thinking about surgeons, would you rather have an acceptable one or a superb one? How about car mechanics?

The real issue we face as a society is that quantity--because it is so easily quantifiable--is overemphasized. But quantity doesn't get the best surgeon nor the best mechanic.