A New Economic – Saving the World in Three Easy Steps
Everyone becomes a debt-free homeowner, and the rich stay rich. There is no need to incarcerate anyone, no class warfare, no fighting in the streets. This plan, quite literally, makes the “American Dream” happen for everyone, all at once.
“The Fire Enlightening”
“The Fire Enlightening” is comprised of nine poems that narrate a journey of philosophic self-discovery, populated with logical and chaotic conceptual metaphor, to bridge a synthesis between the world of nature and the artifice of man.
Surveyor’s Golden Disk No. 1 – Astronomic Latitude
A useful primer for those interested in how latitude has been determined, over land and sea, from prehistory to the Ancient Egyptians and Chinese, to Viking explorers, and all the way to present navigators.
“Swimming in Fire”
Life drawing, 2′ x 3′ pencil on paper, digitally colorized.
Kansas City Star Maker Faire 2017 Spotlight
“Garret Tufte, 32, works as a civil engineer and land surveyor in Lawrence, Kan. But he is also a writer and — as the limestone carving taking shape with his hands showed — a sculptor.”
“Roots Unbound” – In Progress
18″ x 18″ x 50″, 350 lbs., Italian marble.
Electro-Gyro, version 1.0
Turn on the switch and the gyro spins in a set position. Pick it up and twist it to feel the resistance of the angular momentum.
Lady in Waiting No. 1
12″ x 12″ x 20″, Kansas Limestone.
Recent Variations
To Know Thyself is to Know God
And we know that “the knower” cannot ultimately be the object of its own knowledge. So as we seek to know the psychological and spiritual makeup of ourselves, we seek to know God.
Read MoreThe Swing-back of the Democratic Pendulum
The individualists, the conservatives, those of faith, wage not a war upon “the left”, for rather, we are your “right hand”, and the true enemy stands before us. And believe me, we have the playbook for victory.
Read MoreReinforcing and Solidifying Foundational Principles of Civil Society
The trajectory here is the establishment of agreement, considering the foundational principles of Natural Law, the Golden Rule, and Categorical Imperative, and their successive particular derivations, e.g. the Ten Commandments, and Bill of Rights, for the formation of a better social contract. Striving toward these ideals creates, and re-creates, over time, and quite organically, literally, Liberty and Justice for All.
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