<![CDATA[Donald Croft Brickner - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:02:25 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[RrRrRring!: Time to Wake Up -- We're Now a Fallen World]]> This essay/editorial is the latest in my ongoing Internet series related to a "leveling" of the playing field in America. Our key troubles are twofold: terrible global psychological mindsets; and inept, simplistic World Views.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Sep 14, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/rrrrrring-time-wake-were-now-6780900.html <![CDATA[2013, the Year of Jubilee: Our 12-Month Sabbatical from Entitlement and Greed]]> Has Jesus or any Old Testament Prophet ever come out in favor of making tons of money, sailing through life on a free ride (via investments), believing people can be superior because of their status or beliefs, or anything like all that? No. Here's proof.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Sep 14, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/2013-year-jubilee-our-12month-6593050.html <![CDATA[As Far as the Eye Can See, There is Hubris: Hubris, Hubris, Hubris]]> Hubris: not your everyday synonym for "Pride" -- as in, Deadly Sin of. Remove hubris from the hearts and souls of every human being, and the world changes ... almost overnight. Unfortunately, we all need some encouragement.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Aug 07, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/as-far-as-eye-see-there-6549470.html <![CDATA[The Columbus Diaries-2: The Ghosts and Pancho Villa]]> It's a week at this sitting since I completed this essay ... and incredibly, the images continue to appear. I haven't yet begun to figure out this mystery, merely continue to ask: what's the (ghostly) motive?

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: May 30, 2007

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-columbus-diaries-2-ghosts-pancho-villa-372693.html <![CDATA[The Columbus Diaries: Goodbye Life, Hello Columbus]]> Worrying about homelessness, even when it's a real possibility, is not the same thing as staring it square in the face and being forced to react. Having done so, here's my suspicion: I'll not be the last of my ilk to go through it.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: May 02, 2007

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-columbus-diaries-goodbye-life-hello-columbus-326132.html <![CDATA[The End Will Come with an Exhausted Whimper]]> This is a style of work for me which I hope to periodically continue: "stiletto writing." Yes, it's a rant: yet I've tried to entertainly hurl verbage in such a way as to enticingly slice and dice my targeted focus. "Reasoned" approaches simply no longer work.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Jan 23, 2007

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-end-will-come-exhausted-whimper-180318.html <![CDATA[Happy 60th Birthday: You're Fired]]> The last time I was fired from a job was some 35 years ago. I was working in the hardware department at the May Co. in downtown Cleveland, and ... oh, never mind.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Jan 10, 2007

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/happy-60th-birthday-re-fired-166285.html <![CDATA[On Actualizing a Benign Future in the Here-and-Now]]> For a little while, anyway, the success of Americans to upend U.S. Congress might actually initiate the beginning of a new era. Regardless how that all plays out, we still have Problems in River City - and TV and film might begin to work for us, as well.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Nov 09, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/on-actualizing-benign-future-here-now-113597.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (35)]]> In this "verbal trailer," Book 2 of "The Third Personallity" is laid out, chapter by chapter, with a brief comment added suggesting each future chapter's focus.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-35-100719.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (34)]]> Chapter 30 - the final chapter of Book 1: The three primary characters all finally meet in one location. NOTE: From the moment of conception of this story line, I intended to have my two lead male characters meet in this odd fashion. Thanks for reading!

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-34-100707.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (33)]]> A day of victory, joy and wonder for Mrs. Marston (and her alter ego, "The Rev") begins to slide backwards ... and then collapse. A final communique from "Yam" is recalled, too, reiterating the would-be validity of the "gaseous" entity's earlier prophecy.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-33-100682.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (32)]]> It is still 1990 - and Tom Mendelson finally remembers everything unusual out of his youth and early adulthood ... and discovers that his time traveling "partner" is behind just about all of it. In the interim, a terrible event happens to his new friend.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-32-100642.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (31)]]> Harley Boggs, exhausted and desperately lonely, has found his life closing in on him, in ever tighter circles. His only fortress against his intruders? His small apartment in Muncie. When it looks like They're coming for him again, he braces, then reacts.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-31-100608.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (30)]]> Herein begins the countdown to the last five chapters in this novel ... whose story will be completed in a Book 2 (on the heels of this Book 1). In this chapter, the longest in the novel, Hammie has a regional hit song - with his mom the band's arranger.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 21, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-30-100520.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (29)]]> The skeletons in the Boggs family's closet continue to tumble forth in this chapter - which was a lot of fun to write. I've never personally been abducted by aliens (I don't think), but Harley has been, and is here. His greatest shock is aboard the ship.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 20, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-29-100117.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (28)]]> Several years have passed - it's 1987 - and there is "New Age" mania in America (in portions of it, anyway). In the state of Florida, one of the nation's largest actual Spiritualist communities, Cassadaga, outside Deland, enjoys the notoriety - mostly.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 19, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-28-99804.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (27)]]> This is the "Part III: Awakenings" introductory page - featuring a quote from a 19th Century resident of eastern Massachusetts.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 19, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-27-99768.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (26)]]> This addendum to "Chapter 23 - 1982: Jane's Illnesses" is set roughly two years later... and went completely unnoticed by the media, and hence the public, too. Me, personally?: Even as a reader, it would be five years before I would learn of this event.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 19, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-26-99762.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (25)]]> Apart from filling in the blanks left open after Rob Butts' notes (particularly in regards to mostly fictionalized dialogue here), this chapter about his wife, Jane Roberts, is largely factual. Few of her fans knew she was hospitalized in the first place.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 19, 2006

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-third-personality-novel-25-99753.html <![CDATA[The Third Personality: A Novel (24)]]> All of this chapter's locations - and one of its "support characters," Stephen King - are real. So, too, was the theft of some fallen leaves (by my ex-wife and I, giggling like little kids) from the other side of the fence at the King family residence.

Contributor: Donald Croft Brickner
Published: Oct 15, 2006

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