By Bruno Talerico
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Like carpenter and hammeror woodpecker and tree, hail on the tin rooftopstartles and delights.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 233/365.
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This story is not my own.My friend’s uncle’s brother-in-law’s cousintold my friend, and they told methis story that I am telling you.So I can’t vouch foraccuracy or veracity,but I can say that,in my humble opinion, it isone of the better stories I’ve heardin the last few years.Once upon a time—no.Long ago and far away—no.It was…
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Sounds of hope, misleading.Rooms without doors,windows without keys.Sounds of hope,pipe dreams echoing evident whispers,seem to answer unspoken questions.Fools’ words spin about my earscascading promises of solutions to my fears,proselytizing easy pathways to truth.The inward path,the journey toward selfprogresses without shortcuts.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 231/365.
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There are always rules,consequences and debts.Attend notto a particular belief system, but to what worksin any given situation.Rules,consequences and debts vary depending onfour key variables:One:activity—what you are doing,Two :location—what environment you are in,Three:time—when it is happening,andFour:company—who you are with.Take, for example, nudity.Hiking naked alone in Arizona on a cool summer morningwould be very different thanskiing…
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The scald of fragrant steamingColombian coffee,allied with the blaze of Irish whiskey mediated by sweet Italian creamand fortified by blueberry scones.Perfect accord for a cold January morning.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 229/365.Image borrowed from the internet.
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Aldous Huxley and John F Kennedydied on the same day in 1963.Two deaths in synchronicityone peaceful, one violentboth transcendent.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 228/365.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking creatures.We expect events all to happen for a reason.Even when there is no pattern,our brains will create one—thus: myths, religions, fairy talesand conspiracy theories.Humans in general,and in the West especially,desire and require explanations.Just because we wantor think we need an explanation,just because we believewe are deserving,does not obligea deity, the universe,or…
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There is no burrow deep enoughto avoid making a few enemies.People don’t like it when one points outthey’ve been swindled,so they keep their heads in the sandwhile the swindle keeps growing,and they starve for morselsthat sustain their unsustainable philosophy.Fears of not getting into the privileged clubof prolonged asphyxiation—folks fearing their God-given rightto look downon another…
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Explorationshould be ourGolden Rule.Whether driven by desire for excitement or a sense of duty,it is our fundamental responsibility. We are charged withthe vital human task of striking out,finding new places, discovering possibilities.Exploration is the giftwe bring to the world.Exploitation is not.© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 225/365.
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East,the sunrise place the place of becoming. As he writes,the eastern edge of the stormblurs the horizon.Does that render the map inaccurate?Poems are mapsmaps of past joys and hardshipsmaps of futures and dreamsLike makers of topographical mapswriters describe specific territoryat a precise moment,Maps are snapshots frozen in time,influenced by climate and culture,colored by politics and…
Desert Dweller 