“Merlin and Arthur awake in modern times to help save the world from a pandemic. Awesome blending of modern times and mythology!!!
The Gift
by Bob Stegner
Completed October 9, 2021
Warsaw Poland
A gift
Lay upon my lap
The packaging
Unfamiliar
And plain
I Shake it
Hold it up to the light,
Listen
It shares nothing
Not origin,
Nor the hand that made it
I rip it open
And stare
A humble, brown box
Emerges
With a small note
Saying,
“I love you!”
Nothing more
In a rush
Of emotion,
And wonder,
And longing
She returns
From months long past
Again, I sense
Her warmth
And remember
Her handwriting
A shapely, gracious hand
Her face,
Her eyes,
Her hair,
Her touch
I pick through the small trove
Of sensual memorabilia
Of overwhelming passion
Of love
Of laughter
Of moments,
I thought,
Depleted and buried
But now
We are born
Once more
Raised up from the very heart
Of her
In this last and final gift
Carrying loss,
An aching shard of pain,
And the final whispers of a love,
Broken and fading
Into the remnants
And vastness
Of time
Copyright © Bob Stegner 2021
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| Gene Roddenberry |
Gene Roddenberry was the creator of Star Trek. I have been a fan ever since the original series! Below is a quote of his that I love!
“In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate.”
I'm finally getting on a plane again and traveling back to Europe. I'll be in Poland for a month and will be seeing friends there, traveling around, and working on my fantasy book, THE VORTEX: Book III of the Alban Saga!
I love it there and am always inspired to write and have fun.
I'll update you on my progress while I'm there. What a year and a half this has been!
Giveaway ends August 19, 2021.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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| Carl Sagan |
Below is a prophetic quote from Carl Sagan in 1996.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
