In honor of a much more concerted effort by the government to de-fund Planned Parenthood I present the second poem I wrote and recited for the book release event of BATTLE FLAG, the book two friends and I wrote as a response to the incoming administration. ALL proceeds from that book go to Planned Parenthood in a hope that some… Continue reading Rising/Falling – a protest poem
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WORK AND HOPE AND CHANGE
In a perfect world there would be no homelessness, no war, no poverty, there would be none of the problems that we deal with in the world on a daily basis. In this perfect world we wouldn’t have to make the choice of whether we pay the bill or eat for a week. Life is… Continue reading WORK AND HOPE AND CHANGE
ONE – a battle flag poem
One week ago two friends and I held the book release for our book Battle Flag. The book is our response to a world that seems to have gone mad. The event was a step towards understanding and healing that world one word at a time. It was an amazing evening and I'd like to think… Continue reading ONE – a battle flag poem
Raising the BATTLE FLAG
After the results of the election and the punishment of a drawn out and brutal election season I found myself looking at a future I didn’t believe in. Whatever happened would happen, but I needed to find my place in that future. When I learned that one of the plans for the incoming Presidential administration… Continue reading Raising the BATTLE FLAG
Carnivore – a story
I haven't posted a story on here in an age which, if you read this, you may have preferred to what I have to offer. This story stemmed from my desire to work on a new mythology, one not steeped in the old gods and the old ways but one in which we create our… Continue reading Carnivore – a story
A Game Of Expectations
There are days, like today, where I am glad I am out of the convention game. For the five years that we did shows locally I loved them. I loved ALMOST the entire process. Almost. But I loved it. Now that it’s over I miss it, for sure, but I can live with missing it… Continue reading A Game Of Expectations
The Whale of Grief
Grief is hell. If Hell is the absence of God, then grief is the absence of those we love. Grief is hell on earth. For many of us it is a weight that, hard as we try, we can never quite move from our hearts. We are given great volumes of advice on how to… Continue reading The Whale of Grief
A Sense of Perspective
Perspective is a hard thing to keep in the middle of upheaval and change. Perspective is sometimes a luxury we are not afforded. This year has definitely reminded me of perspective and how much we need one another. How we have no choice. How it is only together that this world will move forward. I… Continue reading A Sense of Perspective
The Storm
To say that the United States is a nation in the middle of change is to downplay what is happening. Culturally, socially, politically, scientifically, and on every other factor we are feeling the pangs of a very painful birth. We have prided ourselves as the standard bearers for Freedom and Justice and have taken great… Continue reading The Storm
The Distance of Dreams
If you are lucky enough to have a dream in life you realize that eventually you must let that dream go. It doesn’t mean that you failed or that the dream failed but that you must move forward from that dream. The hope is that you got to live it, to some degree, and can… Continue reading The Distance of Dreams
The Brutal We
It’s hard to see where things took the turn, but turn they have. There’s a sort of casual brutality that has become like a skip in a record and we’ve yet to pick the needle up, as if we like the monotonous drone more than the tune itself. And this doesn’t come from someone who… Continue reading The Brutal We
The Abandoned
I have realized, as I age, that what life does is teach you about loss, early and often. You will learn this lesson whether you like it or not. Life offers no peaceful ends, no graceful goodbyes, and if you dare to love you will have your heart utterly decimated. But for the friendships,… Continue reading The Abandoned
THE CON GAME – The Long Way Forward
Nothing I am going to write is new. None of it is revelatory. None of it will do more than cause a bubble in the ocean but all of it comes from someone at ground zero of the killing fields of convention life. Anyone who knows me knows my record but I’ll restate it for… Continue reading THE CON GAME – The Long Way Forward
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 