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.
May Day 2019, Translations
A newer, better, healthier, natural, symbiotic, active, ecologically plausible world awaits our powerful souls, our responsibility in “knowing”.
“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.
“April Ain’t No Joke” – A Pastel Venus
Happy Easter, happy spring! 2′ x 3′ pencil drawing on paper, digitally colorized.
“Swimming in Fire”
Life drawing, 2′ x 3′ pencil on paper, digitally colorized.
“A Queen Questions Answers”
A piece dedicated to brilliant and chaotic women. 24″ x 36″ pencil drawing 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.”
Recent Variations
Doom and Gloom and… Boom!
“It is always darkest before the dawn,” the saying goes. As well, after all the doom, and after all the gloom, comes “the boom”. Fortunately, we get to decide what character that “boom” shall have.
Read More2020: A Post and a Retrospective
The 20th century, and the first two decades of the 21st, have been a “means to an end”. The end is here. “Work hard today, that you might rest tomorrow.” Well, guess what? Tomorrow is today.
Read MoreAppendix to Recent Words and Deeds, June 2019
A new paradigm is possible. Trust the instincts that lead to empathetic awareness, that branch understanding. Why not trust our neighbors, our friends, our family? We’re gonna need it, now and when shifting gears.
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