“Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?”

[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin’s birthday? Coincidence?

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

He implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship.

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.

Trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer’s intent.

I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I’m currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It’s exciting and somewhat daunting.