Hi USR members and guests, We have had a productive week. We added a timeless reflection from James Baldwin’s “The Creative Process.” In it, he addresses the issue of needing to find different ways of approaching life when traditions change or fade away. In “PB Waves,” Mark Eberhardt discusses the different public and private lives of a Pacific Beach …
Dylan had been in the water for about 45 minutes when he finally saw a promising set of waves heading down the coast toward the Pacific Beach pier. He paddled out a little farther and let the first two waves roll through. The overeager surfers would clear out early, giving …
Hello USR members and guests, As impulsive as New Year’s resolutions tend to be, they do sometimes reflect a serious desire to actualize achievable goals, so in this spirit, we should mention that we will continue to publish all thoughtful, current, and well-composed works in different mediums that will delight and inform our audience. US …
Montezuma Well is an ecosystem unlike any other. A collapsed limestone sinkhole located in the juniper-mesquite shrublands of Verde Valley, Arizona, it holds a 55-foot-deep body of water so rich in CO2 and so thin in oxygen that the heavy ambient air makes a trek through the area feel like a tranquil dream. Two hot springs feed 1.5 …
An intuitive healing can be considered an addition to or expansion of Western medicine. Whereas conventional medicine functions as a form of body mechanics, healings unblock energy stoppages that can lead to physical and psychic toxins building up and doing damage to the body and mind. The healer serves as …
Hello US Represented members and guests, We hope you’ve been enjoying a safe and refreshing holiday season and are looking forward to ushering in the new year with positive intentions. Our goal is to continue growing, upgrading, and diversifying the site so we can better engage your interests and keep …
Yavapai College, located in Clarkdale, Arizona, serves as a model for innovative and visionary thinking at the community college level. Over the past several years, the school has implemented a viticulture program, the only one in the state of Arizona, and planted twenty acres of wine-producing grape vines. This supports …
On Christmas Day, I visited the Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona. It’s 36 feet tall and filled with rolls of prayer mantra, grains, medicines, objects of beauty, and even meteorites, all to protect and replenish the five elements of earth, air, fire, water, and space. Consecrated and sacred, the stupa …
US Represented considers the future beautiful and significant. Hence, we seek and find visionary writers who study the future with fertile imaginations and are willing to share intriguing impressions of what might come to pass. To name a few, Jonathan Read discusses the inevitable necessity of urban rooftop gardening in “Cities Going Green.” He points out that these gardens create their …
Hello USR members and visitors, We hope your week has gone well. As is usually the case, we’ve been busy. We have added a Visual Arts section to the site, which includes separate galleries for photography, electronic arts, paintings, drawings, and 3-dimensional works. Needless to say, we’re pleased with this addition and look …
To a great extent, the construction of Bishop Castle has been fueled by creator Jim Bishop’s inveterate hatred of authority and his contempt for anyone willing to submit to that authority. He has spent years battling zoning, health, noise, and sales tax regulations in his ongoing quest to single-handedly expand and modify ”the largest …
Severed and lush, transplanted dream, the violet rhythm of words not serving, having spoken the universe into existence, spacetime, dreamtime.
Sunrises matter. They smooth the edges and let us know that the previous day should be continued or forgotten. They tell us to take care of ourselves and those around us, especially those around us. How many consider their blind spots in order to make some sense of their lives, then hope …
Over 100 billion stars populate our galaxy, and our galaxy is just one of another 100 or more billion galaxies, so the universe must be teeming with intelligent life. Given that we live in a middle-aged galaxy, other life forms are surely far more advanced than we are. This means …