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It is what it is It is why it is It is how it is It is where it is It is when it is But it is not. The tricky part is telling the difference. The honest part is not knowing. The awakened part is everything else. When someone tells you a lie, believe them. When someone…
Not the body not the mind not the emotions not the feelings not the experience not the job not the religion not the child not the parent not the partner not the rebel not the musician not the poet not the man not the human not the culture not the indoctrination not the front not…
Just because you can read the map, have bought travelogues and visitor guidesto the well-preserved brick-lined avenuesof tradition and ritual, and believe you know which way is north,doesn’t mean you know a thing about the terrain,the weather, the likely hazards on the road,the speed traps that lie in wait for unwary travelers. Just think: what…
Somewhere a song of victory is waitingfor someone brave enough to write it down,once they slip past the barricades downtownwhere both sides are engaged in pointless hating. Until such time, what good is celebrating?Such tunes will just distract us as we drown,and occupy the mourners gathered round,licking their lips. They are salivating. © 2026, John…
As Danny Kaye asked in a fabulous number from White Christmas: “The theater, the theater, what happened to the theater? We can no longer call it dance, we call it choreography!” If life is in fact nothing more than musical theater (and I can hear now the strident booing from the box seats, suggesting that…
I don’t need to hold the whole moon. I’m the pond. I am the dewdrop. A reflection is more than enough. Let me worry about holding a whole satellite once I’ve reached the ocean. Then the moon and I will be in sync, anyway. I’m good with that. 11 AUG 2026 © 2026, John Litzenberg.…
Nobody ever shouts out the answer.It’s that kind of world, but it’s not that kind of answer. You see, the answer is substance, not style.It’s the main program, not the advertisements strewn in between pithy segments,designed to lure you into a false sense of incompleteness,convincing you that You are the set of all setsnot included…