Easytopia!

<p>Not Flash Fiction today. A couple of real life anecdotes, instead. Please check out and buy my very short and cheap book here: <a target="_blank" href="https://linktr.ee/herschelsterling">https://linktr.ee/herschelsterling</a>, where you can <strong>understand the political class in 15 minutes</strong>. I’ll be announcing a new podcast where I interview and read with other storytellers in the next couple of days. I’m excited and nervous about it. Subscribe to learn more. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-people-from-the-mountain-and-the-people-from-the-valley">My ebook is short, sweet, and </a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-people-from-the-mountain-and-the-people-from-the-valley"><strong><em>CHEAP,</em></strong></a> ok, you easytopian? Thanks for your support and for being a fan of my podcast. When I tell stories, I do get listens, and I get larger numbers of listens than my subscriber list. So, I thank you for the sharing and however that happens. Also, <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3fTvcZc9j8T2EXTAsFWDx4">I was on a podcast last week</a>. Go take a listen to that and be sure to subscribe to the Raydical Truth Podcast. That was a lot of fun.</p><p>I’m reminding you of my new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-people-from-the-mountain-and-the-people-from-the-valley"><strong>CHEAP, 5$</strong></a> book that’s available, and I don’t have much to say right now, as I’m really trying to get all my books in a formation to be released over the next few months.</p><p>I want you to consider that Civil War is a Racket, and that you are being abused by the political class. My Book <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-people-from-the-mountain-and-the-people-from-the-valley">The People from the Mountain and the People from the Valley</a> is pertinent, in terms of this kind of conversation. And, this podcast will also be short and sweet.</p><p><p>Subscribe to get the notifications about the above stickers being available and for the rest of my books coming soon. And more storyteller podcasts, of course.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Three stories and some thoughts about titles and their relationship to story endings. This is a live Discord reading to an audience. I like to have guests read with me, in case you’re interested. There will be no reading today, but at least you can hear last week’s content. </p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Here is the live reading from Sunday, Sep.14. Three stories.</p><p>* Crazy, Out to Lunch Satanic Hillbillies</p><p>* The Birthday Gun</p><p>* Miracle Motor</p><p>If you have stories or poetry you would like to read, contact me any time. We can read on a Sunday. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Listen for the introductions and descriptions, etc. Three poems I wrote in the Gila Mountains. That was a long year of travel. The final poem in this series was from when I had deconstructed and decompressed from all the travel.</p><p>Undulation</p><p>Gila – 5-7-13</p><p>The Universe is a mind of minds. </p><p>Every cell in your body is communicating right now, and you have no idea what they are saying. </p><p>Your mind is capable of volitional thought. </p><p>Thought itself is a frequency of energy. </p><p>You have a unique consciousness that has manifested with every decision you made. </p><p>You are a conscious being in a swarm of undulating energy, most of which your volition is perfectly capable of commanding… </p><p>shake it baby shake it.</p><p>#consciousness, #empowerment, #energy, #mind, #thought, #universe, #volition</p><p>Particles</p><p>Gila – 05-18-13</p><p>There are these waves of overwhelming gratefulness. </p><p>They are ecstatic. It’s a rejoining. </p><p>My tears are on my home. </p><p>My Planet is magic. It’s alive. </p><p>I am a ghost within its realm. I require its energy. </p><p>It requires my respect. </p><p>My frequency is integrating. </p><p>I am particles.</p><p>#frequency, #Gila, #particles, #Poetry, #respect, #verse </p><p>Mantra </p><p>Gila – 5-22-13</p><p>Moths hover at a safe distance from the orange, smoldering, glow.</p><p>Cylinder of heat rises, wafting waves of smoke. Juniper. Like myst. Anointing everything it breathes on.</p><p>Leaves. Moths. Piñon needles. Night. Me.</p><p>Snatch of Piñon hurried onto the embers. Juniper and Piñon encapsulate stars. Infuse through moon.</p><p>Nearly full. Casting shadows. Casting light. It can’t hide tonight.</p><p>Flurry of moths flit above my head. </p><p>I close my eyes and flit. Gliding. Basking. Enjoying warmth.</p><p>Laughing with my new friends at our good fortune.</p><p>I open my eyes. Something is moving in the grass.</p><p>River. Bubbling. Flowing. Peace. Slow hiss of coals whisper. Crickets. </p><p>Such mantra.</p><p>#campfire, #fire, #Gila, #Juniper, #leaves, #mantra, #musings, #New Mexico, #night, #pinon, #Poetry, #verse, #writing </p><p>These are Innate Understandings</p><p>? — 11-7-13</p><p>These are innate understandings that are conditioned out of us, and people are re-learning them.</p><p>You sense there is a waking up happening. </p><p>You do not have to be a guru or avatar to understand these things. </p><p>These are universal laws that are already a part of consciousness.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">commercialherschel.substack.com/subscribe</a>