Den of Iquites

There Is Only God

“Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.” — Rumi

I have silently intoned “La illaha ilallah hu”, on every breath, for over twenty years. To me, it means, “there is only god”. Muslims include a name for god in the translation. I…

Road Trip 2023

From Sunday, 7 May through Tuesday, 30 May, 2023, I drove over 5,000 miles, with my Super73 ebike on a motorcycle rack behind my…

Dance Knoxville

Dance Knoxville is a newsletter about places to go dancing in Knoxville, Tennessee. I just created it. I’ll be making my own dance…

My COVID-19 Experience

I knew people who had COVID in January of 2020, but it wasn’t named for the public yet, so we didn’t recognize it until…

Return to Eden

Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden when the snake taught Eve the knowledge of good and evil. If we unlearn that, return to…

Strong Alley

Knoxville’s Strong Alley is downtown, half a block east of Market Square. It contains a huge amount of high-quality graffiti. Google…

Bicycle Keys

I now have five e-bikes. Each one has a lock, as I discovered that sharing a lock means that I will occasionally forget to bring it…