Canto One (three videos completed April 4th, 2013)

Philosophical Ruminations - canto one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikt4pEDB6cs&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l
more philosophical blah blah blah - enter at your own risk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURAs5lUCRM&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l
you've gone this far, you might as well go all in - don't you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwegkZ0hq4&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l

Canto Two (four videos completed April 13th, 2013)

Philosophical Ruminations - canto two:  some universal characteritics of mind: sleeping and waking; forgetting and remembering; madness and sanity; and, death and life.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om5Iyt6UiGo&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=4
Prisoners of the NOW: what does it mean to mind, to always experience everything in the present? Even memory of past events, or fantasies of the future - all experience is of the present ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HYtD4E4vQo&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=5
social chaos, news and stuff: How do we actually see the reality that tries to poke through the filters that make up how News is created?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Lg7oyjUuk&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l
irrationality, rationality, and transrationality: the mind has many courses and rivers, many streams and seasons, many colors and times, ... if we learn to be awake to all its moods, there lies a universe of wisdom ...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrj5yBLlZWs&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l

Canto Three (seven videos, where is read the middle (heart) aspect of my novel American Phoenix, completed May 3rd, 2013)

part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzecbek2opU&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=8
part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kljValdx_Y8&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=9
part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mV6c737bkI&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=10
part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmriQS4ByWw&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=11
part five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwDqsrFB5I&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=12
part six: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dElF4E90gKM&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=13
part seven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ZvNYs5S-A&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=14

Canto Four (some poems)

a poem - May Flowers, from April Showers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21BoKe0gScE&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=15
another poem: the haunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVW6RHlJQk&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=16
more ... the World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnpZ7cCflc&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=17
again: letter to President Obama #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD7FsEmpOj0&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=18
the Mystery of Lust - in poetic form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvyu0k1B_4&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=19

Canto Five (some short stories)

the Zen Potter  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZlX57KC7Mw&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=20
Counting Coup: a Rainbow Warrior Story
    part one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseHof2Cua0&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=21
    part two:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7tTt_LE4TM&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=22
Bicycles: a Children's Christmas Story for Adults   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKwNxo0OxGI&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=23

Canto Six (an ongoing series: Poet Network News,which is also contained on my blog: Shapes in the Fire)

"movie review - Lincoln - a failed opportunity": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdgJ8HBJ0o&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=24
"everywhere is war": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dlE-FNCKg&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=25
"the real meaning of the Boston Marathon bombing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0YTtJ7Rq40&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=26
"thinking the unthinkable": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUjvMgqGVk&list=PLKX6sLJnBpAcXuFHK6C7DKRYDrCZCON3l&index=27


Canto Seven (a reading of the book Economic and Social Rebellion)

Canto Eight (readings of the developing novel: "StrangeFire: the name of the first space traveling, self-aware, Cathedral")

Canto Nine (notes on the construction of a living spaceship, with a real AI - see the novel above for an imaginative presentation of this idea - these notes are the technical specifics on how to create such a ship  in physical  "reality")

Canto Ten - the slow development of the series of Courses under the title: the American School of Life-on-the-Earth Sciences (the meaning of human existence)