Welcome to Words, Music and Radical Common Sense!
I’m Chris Preston, writer and recording artist. This is where you’ll find some of my more transitory writing and information about my music and records.
This is my little platform, so I’ll just lay it out.
We are in despair, but we’re not all to blame. If you voted for this, you are to blame. If you have not called your representative in protest, you are to blame. If you think you have to the right to inflict suffering, you’re to blame.
If you are to blame, you deserve what’s happening. Millions of people, and I among them, do not. May you bear the burdens of your hatred and selfishness for all of us. May you never emerge from the darkness of your heart, no matter how much pain befalls you. That is what you owe. Your debt will not be paid in a thousand lifetimes.
It’s fascinating that fifty or sixty years ago, many people thought the country was doomed. Really. How adorable that was.
Latest from the blog
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They’re sleepwalking. I started to notice the pattern this week and now it’s everywhere I look. No fewer than half a dozen times this week, I’ve asked someone a simple question and received a non-answer, or one that shows no understanding of the question I’m asking. For example, I recently canceled a credit card. I…
New Aquarius, my most recent album. Available by download.
Never do what Walt is doing. It’s terrible for those with TMJ dysfunction. I’m serious.
Poems
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman