All you need to know about me is when I was young and after graduating from San Francisco State with a degree in creative writing I ran with San Francisco’s counter culture revolutionaries, talking tough, wanting to burn it all down, even a trek to Cuba, a bunch of us with a radical brigade, meeting with Fidel, cutting sugarcane with him, and then at dinner all of us eagerly listening to his self- serving yet sometimes rhapsodic, even humorous exhortations on ‘El Pueblo’ and revolution, unleashing within us that ‘Ubermensch Derangement Syndrome,’ that your humanity is greater than another’s humanity which therefore empowers you over them, including of course unleashing a lynch mob on them if necessary.

Later because of injury as a working man I virtually fell into Chiropractic college, a Damascus Experience, Saul to Paul you could say, causing an essential change in my thinking and being, what that Chiropractic holistic philosophy inspired in me—that who you are is who you will take the courage to be, and not you just being the product of the people, events, and politics surrounding you, but instead that your life is your choice and nobody else’s.

So, for the rest of my life, instead of laying hands on people violently, I’ve done so therapeutically, and now my big boast is I’ve done so over a quarter of a million times, while at the same time getting married to a woman whose laughter heals, and raising a family of three sons as well.

For most of those years my only writing was not creative but hundreds of medical-legal reports for lawyers and insurance carriers, which of course though lucrative are the exact opposite of creative writing, especially poetry.

About a dozen years ago, I awoke one morning and just started writing poetry again, eventually leading to two epic poetry sagas, each one multivolume, one modern and one ancient happening at the time of Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars. The first book of those sagas is now published:

The Adventures of HighPockets and the Blue Guitar

Searching for the Face of God

and I’m hoping to publish the others one at a time over the next few years. Stay tuned.

My Prayer

In the name of Christ, the Mystical Body of Christ,
by all that’s sacred and holy in life,
I call upon almighty, everlasting God to know me,
to hold me, Lord, in Thy embrace of benevolence,
healing me in concert with Thy Divinity,
flowing through me like a river of Light,
from above down and from inside out.

And quicken me, O Lord, in my daily endeavors,
Thy strength and guidance to overcome my weakness and inadequacies.
and bring love and goodness, Lord, to those I have wronged or made suffer,
and here’s me reaching out for forgiveness.

But most of all, Lord, I implore you shield me from evil,
From its rage that threatens me into my soul,
but instead reassure me always of thy Grace and Goodness
lifting us out of this fear and wail

And enlighten me, Lord, both body and soul,
so I can reach out to all in peace and understanding

And reach out to our President, Lord, and inspire him,
and bring him wisdom, courage, understanding, and humility,
so that he can lead us into peace and prosperity,

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory,
Forever and ever, amen.