There once was a Man named Rump

Twelve miles of the steep switchback, jungle-cliff trail. A peek-a-boo vista down to the quiet cove and white sand beach below. The water bottle is empty among the camping gear in the backpack. I smile, ‘how fortunate, the beach is empty. Total seclusion.’ Upon arrival, I dump my pack and…

(Poetry Slam style) The Second Amendment of the Constitution terms, The Right to Bear Arms as necessary for offering protection in the home. I recently saw a video of a man on YouTube who was hiking on a trail while holding off an advancing grizzly bear by filming the incident…

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God Loves Me, when I am not in sin. God Sees ME, when i aM in sin. I ask for the Lord’s Forgiveness, so I will Not be in sin. oops, Forgot to love myself, again i am in sin… Lights out, I have Lust Lights on, I Must love God out, lust on, lust out god on. Lights out, Lights on.. My god. My lust. MY LOVE…! Join Medium with my referral link - JT Read every story from JT (and thousands of other writers on Medium). Your membership fee directly supports JT and other…medium.com

It was 1994, I was just out of massage therapy school at 21 years old. I had it in my mind that travel overseas would be the perfect accouterment to starting a new career. Starting in Indonesia I made my way to Malay where I became deathly ill in a…

Why does it seem as if there is a breach in time, after an abortion…as if in -a level of humanity has just dropped, -as if in water through the hole in a bucket has just dropped, less brought home for drinking-cooking-cleaning and yet, water on the ground behind on…

In the blistering maze of a stone foggy haze, I clamor over a high mountain pass with heart-wrenching delight. My weighted aching back relies on challenged cold willful eyes, As I ascend with the pace of a hungry goat. Atop, peering through a blue skied pearl, is a village, facing its ever-known Himalayan home. Lost in a nest, hugging a crest, They work isolated from time. Now I wonder if there is more to fill this mountain folklore

Out in the canyon, my newly acquired 1/2 acre parcel of land, on a south-facing slope, located in a gully, downhill from the Rocky Mountain snowmelt, was overgrown and suffering from years of neglect. …