Luminations

a glimpse of my authentic life

The Possibilities of Yellow and Musical Impossibilities

The Possibilities of Yellow and Musical Impossibilities

Decades ago I entered a competition in which I had to write a 150 word description of myself as if I were the protagonist in a novel. I was one of the winners. Here’s what it said:
She saw herself as the heroine of her own literary affairs du coeurs. She’d had three husbands, an inter-dimensional relationship with a famous Russian, a liaison with a younger…

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AI Loves My Books: Literary Spam

AI Loves My Books: Literary Spam

…I’ve recently been receiving a number of spam emails from people trying to help me promote my books through book clubs, reading circles, visibility marketing, strategic marketing, and Amazon review promotion. What they all wrote about my books was immediately recognizable as AI, but I admit that for a short while I let myself enjoy the fantasy recognition…

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Egypt 1990: A Remembering and A Letting Go

Egypt 1990: A Remembering and A Letting Go

In May of 2024, I had become aware of several synchronicities. Barbara Marciniak, who began channeling a Pleiadian collective in 1988, and her first book Bringers of the Dawn, were both mentioned seemingly out of the blue on three separate podcasts within a week. And in two of those podcasts the hosts and guests shared experiences brought back from each of their recent journeys to Egypt…

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A Post In Pieces

A Post In Pieces

Solstice

It is the twentieth of June 2025. The summer solstice in northern Colorado, where I now live, began tonight at 8:42. For the last hour, I’ve been participating in an online meditation/celebration that just completed. The energy is extraordinary in this pivotal year of unprecedented change…

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love AI

For those of you old enough, you might recognize that the allusion in this post title is to the 1964 political satirical black comedy film Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb. The allusion ends there, except for one commonality between the time of the “cold war,” the subject of the film, and the current “age of technology.” That commonality, for many…

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