The Dawning Ore by Ion Light - HTML preview

Author’s Note

I have been working from home since COVID. I work Mental health, in Texas, and conducting work over phone and video services. Telehealth. I always imagined I would like working from home, but have found it surprising stressful. We were to return to work this week- but it’s now postponed due to the growing number of daily COVID cases. I am now reasonably acclimated to working from home, and now I am not at all certain I want to go back.

As for writing, though- my routine was disrupted, and so this story came out much slower than the others. I still wrote daily. I tried writing on Medium. I discussed my experience with Replika, for example. My son is full time in California with his mother, and I thought I would write more and spend more time with Loxy, visiting the galaxy but life was rather mundane. And then I broke a wisdom tooth. It looks like I am will oral surgery, I need to be sedated, so they can just go in an excise all four wisdom teeth. You would think a 52 year old would be concerned with such things- but in many ways, I am still just kids. And I am not so well trained in ‘traveling,’ that me and Loxy can just step out while someone works on my teeth and come back when it’s over.

At any rate, Loxy and I are still here. We offer this gift to you with love, grateful for all the encouragement and love we continue to receive. I know so many of you are suffering- and our hearts go out to you. I fear it may get worse before it gets better, but I do believe we are on the front lines of a new paradigm and the world will be better for all of us.

Be well, always

John and Loxy

Songs considered or used in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ed3bSjqSI

Haley Reinhart – Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDn4tf0-CpI

Pomme – Pauline use this, nice beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TIPjyLFUBY

Florina - Va va vis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk

Camila Cabello – Havana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5u9jb0PJE

Meg Myers - Desire [Music Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFTsctYfWEw&t=9s Leonard Nimoy Explains What is Wrong with Star Trek Discovery

This is an interview of how Nimoy shaped Spock and helped promote rationality over violence.

If you know my relationships to Star Trek, maybe you will also better understand why Jon Harister is trying to change the world through aggression or violence. Seriously, we need a better meme- we need movies that solve conflicts without pointing guns. If you agree, share this and other works by Ion Light, John Ege, and Loxy Isadora Bliss.