The Enlightening Chapters 37-40

                                                            37 Merle drove me back home.  He turned on his “radio” and we listened to some jazz.  “Who is this playing, Merle?” “That’s Thelonious Monk.”   “I like it.”  “I love it,” Merle said.    When we pulled up to the house, the fireflies were out, in the yards and in the park across the street.  […]

We can Make a Difference

Pollution is a world-wide problem, as Merle Akeetheran points out in The Enlightening. Industrial-level pollution can follow the hydrologic cycle and be carried around the entire Earth.  Merle pointed out that this defilement reaches areas as remote as the mountaintop in the Himalayas where he enlightened Ken as to the nature of electromagnetic energy and […]

A Shout-out to Merle Akeetheran

In “The Enlightening,” Merle Akeetheran opines that overpasses and underpasses that allow wildlife to safely cross busy roads are a good idea.  Merle points out that many people are killed and seriously injured each year due to vehicle/ animal collisions, and the carnage inflicted upon the affected fauna can be quite considerable.  In fact, Merle […]