Crag the Crow

When I stand beside the Ocean - Perhaps a mate by my side - I am humbled by the vast wide open, Naked, collapsing, with nowhere to hide. And the expanse arrayed before me Formless and flat and wide, Is the great earth's analogy, For how a man is called to abide. The opposite side is too distant For a child to imagine its shore. A father must in this life be regnant; One for the child to adore. A man begets his loved children, And learns that he must rise in his soul To form the clay into strong men And satisfy the God-given role. A one of the same was there at my side The moment I birthed on the scene. Would he had thrown his arms so wide - A bosom like Abraham's for me to lean. His life would not be measured by success, Rather on the manliness he taught. Worldly trophies not to be his dress, But the struggles that he sore fought. Rising from rest to find rest in spirit, Wending his way to the daily hunt. His ret...

I’m a farmer, Working from a dairy farm to a hog farm. It must be heaven to walk in this mud. Many farmers have come to milk on this land. They bring tools to set down their own gardens in this place. Neighbors on the earth, brothers and sisters in spirit, Motherless children yearning for Peace.

Mock Up Cover, Obvs A phenomenal thing happened yesterday:   I finished the first of three parts for, what I hope, will be my first novel.   It is a fantasy about a young man and his rite of passage, and the war that happens for his soul between the holy Colluchians and the evil Aenocyons.   Gordie is a young man sent on the Ramble, the generations-old journey to adulthood for the Colluchians.   The wisefolk imparted tremendous wisdom to him before his journey, hoping that this would keep him from straying away.   They have hope that he will be the leader who would bring peace and joy to the Commonwealth.   He was on a path to gain mastery of great power, as willed for him by the deity Colluch.   But Gordie swears off his god and places himself at the center of his own world. During his subsequent exile, he is pursued by the evil Ayersi, the ugliest man from the distant city of Aenocyon.   As he escapes, he is taken under the protect...

This review originally appeared at Geek Universal. My boys and I just got back from seeing Captain Marvel.  It is a fantastic movie!  I am a kid of the Nineties, and enjoyed some of the images of my youth on display.  It is also an interesting tool for placing Captain Marvel herself in the larger MCU mythology.  This was done to a small degree with the backstory for Star-Lord, but not to this extent.  This was a beautiful movie, inside and out. Captain Marvel hits all of the notes for the MCU.  For those who are deeply invested in the metastory, there are tons of additions to advance the story.  For those who like sci-fi and superhero movies, the action is fantastic and clean – easy to watch, follow and be entertained. The brightest point of the movie is its character study of Captain Marvel herself.  At this point, you’ll need to recognize that my review is not going to be point by point or about the movie itself, but about the pers...

It comes in the dark After the failures: regrets, burdens of the mind.  It comes to a man of some promise Who doubts his Creator Who doubts his own heart Who doubts the hope - though it is his core.  The hope is buried It’s very thing suppressed.  The hope is despaired Though it froths with great strength.  The hope calls the slumber to end, The hiding to become boldness,  The fear to take its place again and again as nothingness.  A single light, Here on my hand.  Entering my mouth  At this dark moment.  Dark depth and silence broken by industry, or fatigue, or frivolity.  All these being good, properly conceived.  We don’t do sarcasm.  We do raw honesty.  We rise from the errors.  We battle the enemy of the strength.  We rise to earthly service and find light’s source.  After and through the yielding to momentary death:      ...

She makes me write. Bestows the ability, Unlocks it from the dangerous cavern where it was manacled. Loving freely, Graciously remaining. I have no fears about releasing my story.

This is my Christmas post.  Trust me for a bit on that. Allow yourself to rise up.  Meditate on what it means, or the process by which, you can become greater than you have ever thought you could be.  Leave behind ideas of materialism, or even what pop culture offers as spiritualism.  Identify not with the crude matter, but give great psychological effort to becoming one with the Force, that the Force may become one with you.  If we can find clarity enough to look inside of our own souls we will find that there is a secret hope there, implanted by the Creator.  While the Jedi hoped for the Chosen One, we have a hope for the messianic.   Click here to read the rest.