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I’ve had a lifelong love affair with music, and 2020 has given me occasion to rekindle that relationship. I’ve just published the first song from my upcoming album on YouTube. Please take a listen and let me know what you think!

Timothy Snyder is a historian with a modern message:

"You go after facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. Step One: You lie yourself, all the time. Step Two: You say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie. Step Three: Everyone looks around and says, "What is truth? There is no truth." And then resistance is impossible and the game is over. -- Timothy Snyder, Author of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century"

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"Believe in truth. To abandon facts...

Somehow I went my entire life without seeing this quote:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -Philip K Dick

This insight suggests an experiment that will universally sort out right from wrong. Do you believe something? Stop believing in it, just for a little while, and see if it goes away.

Examples:

God: When I stopped believing he was doing everything, other explanations presented themselves.

Trump: When I stopped believing he was looking out for the average Joe,...

If you were going to come up with the most ambitious life's purpose anyone has ever had, what would it be? Create jobs? Build roads? Think bigger. Put an end to poverty? Disease? War? How about overpopulation (which is what happens when you're pretty good at eliminating poverty, disease and war)?

Think bigger.

When humanity has gotten a handle on most of its major malfunctions, what comes next? Isaac Asimov wrote a brilliant short-story called "The Last Question." [SPOILER ALERT: I'm Going to S...

Sorry, been hard at work with new material and putting together the final-cut(s) of From Nothing Until Now: An Origin Story.The paperback is still in the works (should be available in the next few weeks), and an audiobook is coming soon, but the ebook is now available for pre-order from Amazon:http://amzn.to/1STVm02

A short story, by Michael Raymond.

I have no idea how much time passed before I noticed the body on the floor. I felt dazed, like I'd been hit on the head so hard I was lucky to remember my own name. Thankfully, and somewhat curiously, I had none of the pain or general skull throbbing that normally comes with a head injury. Actually, physically speaking, I felt fine.

Ed Foster. That was my name. One of the few things I was certain of at the moment. Officially, I was Doctor Edward Foster, Ph.D....

We did it! From Nothing Until Now: An Origin Story for Kids and Adults @Kickstarter was funded! http://kck.st/1R8jxLP

The Kickstarter campaign for From Nothing Until Now is live! With your support we can get the book illustrated and make it truly unforgettable.

UPDATE: The Kickstarter campaign for From Nothing Until Now is live! With your support we can get the book illustrated and make it truly unforgettable.

I now present, for your enjoyment, the complete text of my upcoming middle-grade book, From Nothing Until Now.

In the beginning, there was nothing. There was no space. There was no time...