Reply #41: Thank you, OctaFish, for your kind words and excellent literary taste!

[dxstone]

That piece is actually a bit dated, first published almost a year ago... I've got many such on my site but it's less than three months old now, and those pages don't get much traffic yet; too bad, too, cuz I think my writing's probably a helluva lot stronger than my art...
But who reads anymore?... sigh... hard to get noticed in this biz...

Y'know, in some ways it's more hopeful now, cuz some people ARE beginning to wake up; on the other hand, the damage done, especially these last 4 1/2 years... man...
I'm always hopeful, though, when I'm not in a state of deep despair, anyway...
We gotta keep pushing; that's what my site is for, another window out of the phony Matrix world and into real reality... and distorted as that particular window is, that was the intention... I'm taking a bit of a different tack at all this, and hoping that my efforts are indeed doing SOMETHING to shake people out of their comas...
So I appreciate the good feedback; makes me feel useful...
Still, no one really seems to get religion til the trouble starts impactin' them where they live... dammit!
More than all our efforts at education and enlightenment of those still sunk deep in the dream, it's probably these gas prices of late that are finally penetrating thru the haze...
Oh well; I'll take what I can get...
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