Another excerpt from my first draft...

"Some of us become obsessed with controlling every aspect of ourselves as we strive for this distorted and impossible ideal of self-mastery. Adam and Eve covering their naked bodies in the parable of the Garden of Eden is a mirror of our modern sense of self-consciousness and our shame at the fact that we are, from a scientific perspective, biological organisms. Our obsession with self-control manifests itself in a sort of Freudian reaction-formation in regard to ourselves; we consume ourselves with activities and methods of distancing ourselves from whom and what we truly are. We cover our bodies with fashionable clothes, put make-up on our faces, colour and style our hair, spend hours body-building or tanning, or make sure we are seen with certain people, in certain places, and under certain circumstances to raise our esteem in the eyes of others. In essence, because we are so obsessed with controlling the ultimately uncontrollable facts about ourselves, we do everything we can that is within our control to compensate for our sense of powerlessness. And in doing so, we disregard vital aspects of our humanity and lose touch with our authentic selves."

Inspirational Words: E. E. Cummings

e. e. cummings was and remains to be one of the most well-known American poets of the 20th century. In addition to writing thousands of poems, he was an essayist, author, painter, and a playwright. He's written some of the most beautiful arrangements of words in the English language and a few of them are below.

Read. Feel. Be inspired.

So I'm writing a book...

As I've shared with some of you, I'm currently in the process of writing a book, tentatively titled "The Other Side of People." This book will be an amalgamation and synthesis of the knowledge, wisdom, experiences, and information I have accumulated over my lifetime. I don't want to say much more at this point, as much of it has yet to be written, but here is an excerpt from part of the first chapter of the first draft that I'm working on:

As human beings, we are not just biological organisms driven by survival-based motivations and needs to achieve homeostasis in our bodies. Nor are we merely vessels for thought, shells in which information is processed like a computer. We are not only waves of emotion being thrown about by the whims of external forces and internal pressures as we react to our environments. We are a synthesis of all these things and a multitude of other characteristics that make up the multifaceted existence and experience of being human. Most of all, we are persons; gestalts which are greater than the sum of the individual pieces of which we are composed and greater than the manner in which our parts are arranged. 

Stay posted for more updates.

Cocoon

Not everything that cocoons

becomes a butterfly.

A butterfly needs to undergo complete metamorphosis

at a cellular level,

each part of it transforming, shifting, changing,

in a delicate process that, if disturbed

can result in death.

People often enter cocoons of their own.

Sometimes it is necessary to cocoon,

to lose old ideas, beliefs, perspectives,

and gain new faculties and sensibilities;

to emerge with new possibilities for life.

But not every caterpillar that enters a cocoon

sprouts the wings it needs to fly.

ALL MUSIC NOW FREE

I want to give a sincere THANK YOU to everyone who's been supporting me, rocking with me, motivating me, encouraging me, inspiring me, and listening to my words and music over the past several years. As a token of gratitude, ALL of my music is now available for FREE download, including my latest EP, "the poet":

http://mcfubb.bandcamp.com/

Storm

like a branch that beats down

on a window pane in a storm,

threatening to  break it all –

shattered to pieces

like an unforgiving friend

who doesn’t want to hear apologies,

justifications or reason,

who just wants to know that you feel

as shitty as they do

liquid rock

searing over gray matter,

coursing through veins;

ashen trees with empty roots,

cracking at the seams,

brittle to the core

I will bend

but I will not break

against the weight of the storm

MLK Timeline

Check out this great, basic MLK timeline I got sent to me from www.onlinecollegecourses.com: