Midnight Musing 09/28/2025
A foundational facet of my writing is being an empirical thinker; being a truth-seeking truth-speaker, striving always to be accurate. When I engage others who have conflicting points of view, I certainly prefer NOT being incorrect, and might argue my point with great emphasis, but I’ll willingly accept irrefutable or even just rationally conclusive evidence proving my point is in fact mistaken and/or in error. I have everything to gain by accepting valid evidence that is at its core, truth.
My writing attempts to convey different sides of human perspective, sometimes in its extremity. It is meant to reflect aspects of human nature that are appealing, and that which isn’t, while via daily news and individual perceptions we bear witness to sequential vignettes of evolving reality.
The characters in NEXUS are symbolic; with a few particular exceptions, each a composite of specific individuals I have known (and a few purely conceptualized). I’ve lived a very unconventional life journey and have had no shortage of sources for inspiration. I’m reasonably certain I’m not the only one with the misfortune of encountering and circumstantially being forced to deal with people who brazenly argue “blue is yellow” (figuratively); people who insist that proven falsehoods are “facts,” and who will never, ever, ever admit to being inaccurate, solely because it means “you would win,” and they would “lose.” Sometimes fully knowing that they are wrong but refusing to acknowledge it - just to be provocative. Their pleasure is “owning you” because they know you care about x, y, or z, and they’ll just yank your chain because you give a damn. My private view is “Avoid getting trapped into arguing with idiots…”
In the past, I would make the effort, in the interest of wanting to achieve peace, to reach across the divide and make a constructive difference as a citizen and a human being with a healthy sense of conscience and an old school hippie soul. But now I seem likely to feel those words from the Bard, Bob Dylan, as he wrote, “…I used to care, but Things Have Changed…”
At least, it’s more layered now. In my youth, I had unbridled passion which lead me to explore and experience all manner of eye-opening encounters and journeys. Generally, always with good intentions, but not always demonstrating the best judgement… Now, with the patina and sage of age, my soul perceives through a different lens; I have perspective. I strive to remain mindful, and I have gratitude for the gift of life and my life’s humble blessings. I strive to pick my battles carefully whether choosing what to kvetch about as benevolent dictator to my three ginormous dogs… or with anyone, be they family, friends, acquaintances or strangers.
I’m hardwired to “keep it real” and tend to be uncompromising on my principals. I’m learning to adjust between the micro-perspective of “devil in the details” of stuff, and the macro-perspective of “bigger picture. Remembering that not everything matters, certainly not equally, and to be selective how I allocate that incredibly precious, un-renewable and err-diminishing gift of time, which in essence is an allocation of Life. These are some of the motivating inspirations behind characters created in the storyline.
