In This ONE UNITED WORLD...We Stand

Tomorrow is another day

Another chance to see the light

Another chance to do things right


Tomorrow is another chance

To better love those in my life

To finally end all the ridiculous strife


Tomorrow......Never came after 9-11

And will no more

And it is a great shame


And since then no more tomorrows

Are no longer coming

For more and more everyday


In a war which should wake us up

To those of us who do wake up

To the preciousness of life


With the courage to do what is right

Which is not to fight

Against our fellow man


But instead fight for peace

With a hug and a handshake

And see 9-11 as life shaking us awake


My God is better than your God

Says man as he charges ahead

With a rock, a spear, a rocket, a plane


My religion tells me to kill you

My "religion" based on the philosophy of enlightened men

And turned it into a killing religion after they are dead


Religion used as an opium for the masses

As Karl Marx said so enlightened

Whose is now dead


So why not use his philosophy

Make him a God and start a religion against all religion

And start killing people over it in his name


"God" Damn it!

It's time to stop

This battle between man and his "gods"


Seeing salvation as outside of himself

Seeing Heaven up above

And Hell down below


Instead of where they really exist

Heaven inside one's own soul

And hell created in one's own head


It's time to start living united

And living as one

In this ONE UNITED WORLD........




We Stand.....and hopefully continue to live.



- Adam Stuart (2007)

Entering the Gates of Heaven

You are all back with your mothers now
Our time together done

For ten days I have been granted access into Heaven
Ten days of heavenly laughter and love

Although your pillows will be empty when I whisper
Tonight I will whisper again

With eyes closed pictures of you I'll hold
Waiting to hear "My Daddy loves me" whispered back from your soul

For the next two weeks I'll bargain with the Keepers of Time
Asking them to return every moment we spent to my mind

I will allow my heart to swell with all the good you've given to me
Until I can give back to you all the good inside of me

My house will then become a home again
As together we'll walk through the Gates of Heaven holding hands


*Irony. Ten days ago when I first got Sofia, I wrote about rising from Hell ("Hell's Angels"). My last day with her I write about having just left Heaven.

Hell's Angels

Wake up feeling good. My Sofia is with me for the next 10 days over Spring Break. Feeling lots of love and of all the good I can do in the world with this great power I feel.

Start thinking that maybe some angels come from Hell. They survive hellish tortures in their human lives, rising from it even more loving, and more determined to spread all the good they can in the world. Hell wasn't hellish enough to kill their strong spirit.*

They are reborn as impassioned warriors to fearlessly fight hate with love, sadness with joy, and doubt with belief. Even though they will be often doubted and their intentions questioned, they will continue to do it anyway.

They are stronger and "badder" than the demons that seem to infect so many and cause them to make other's lives worse. Anyone in these angel's lives will be filled with an abundance of love, happiness, confidence and possibility.........Heaven exists inside of them and around them.

"When we are young
And covered in love,

We completely believe
We are gifts from above."

- from my poem, "The Artist in You"

Angels walk among us, around us, and in us. They take the shape of a good parent, a good friend, a good lover..............and the good love of a child.

The bell dings. Sofia is letting me know she has a boo-boo. "Dal mio cuore, ai miei labbri, a ti", (From my heart, to my lips to you" - as I touch my heart, kiss my fingers and then place it on her "owee"). Her boo-boo is healed. The angels inside us give us magical healing powers.

"Daddy I want to do my 'talk dwallings' (chalk drawings)."
"Go ahead Honey, do your chalk drawings."
"But I can't open the door."
"Yes you can, just solve your own problem."
"But I don't know how."
"Well, what do you know how to do?"
"Lift the stick."
"Then lift the stick.....Good Job! Now what 's next?"
"Swide the door."
"Yes, so slide the door."

"Oh! I did it! I did it!"
"Yes you did. See how smart you are?"
"Daddy I'm five now."
"And you're a smart five!"
"Yeah, I know Daddy" - (The confidence of her angel is speaking to mine, and I feel happy.)

"Shakespeare"
"Yes....yesssss I know Daddy." - (If Shakespeare could use 24,000 different words correctly in his body of work, my children and students can learn to use a few correctly in their speech ("yes" v. "yeah").

"Gwazie Papa."
"Prego Sofia. And Grazie a ti. Ti amo."

Hell's Angels aren't all bad.....we can play hopscotch, too.

*To read a great song/poem by "The Waterboys" called "Spirit", click here. It was sent to me by my best friend, Brian Donovan, who makes the world an incredible place for children with his "Mighty Me Training Camp", acting classes for inner city youth, and doing cartoon and anime voices such as "Jetix" on Toon Disney.)

You're NOT Going to Hell

Better starve free than be a fat slave.

Aesop(620 BC-560 BC)

This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from the movie Braveheart. "Every man dies, not every man really lives"

It continues to amaze me the similarity and connectivity between the thinking of the world's greatest historical figures.

"Live Free! Live Free!" their spirits seem to call from a parallel world next to ours. "Don't wait! Unchain yourself NOW!"

In either "The Way of the Superior Man" or "The Way of the Warrior" (doesn't matter, the learning, or "the way" has been achieved) a warning is sounded that since we are no longer faced with the imminent dangers we had to face long ago, man has gotten lazy and soft.

We become confused at what's worth fighting for. Men today (and women) have hardly a clue at what strength and honor is. Being a real man is judged more on income than on parenting. Real men provide both.

Men are willing to throw away their dreams to take care of their women (I used to know one of these men personally). Real men do both; pursuing their own dreams while taking care of their woman's needs.

And what the neighbors think is more important than what a man sees when he looks in the mirror.

Fears of failure, chains of guilt, and the demons of doubt are self-imposed prisons for too many of us. We don't think with our minds and listen to our hearts in taking a chance on true happiness, real joy and truly fulfilling careers.

Don't be afraid of dying; be afraid of dying without having lived. Last night I was nearly rammed by a high-speed chase that at best would have left me in a coma. I talked to God, telling him he better not take me that way. I do not want to die in a car crash or with cancer.

Take me working too hard for my family, scaling down cliffs or fighting off a mountain lion, or protecting a child from an abusive father. But do not take me not really living, I'll show up pissed.

I can't control when my last breath is breathed, but I can control whether I imprison myself or not. I would teach and write for free, and pretty much do. But I am happy now, fearless and free. I couldn't say this when I was in business, one month even pulling in close to $10,000.
That money is gone now, as is the "happiness" it gave me.

I am finally pursuing my own mission in life. With all the writing projects coming in it is certain that lasting wealth will finally make itself a home in my life. And it all came from busting out of my own prison and breaking the chains I had bound myself with.

And I know for certain I'm not going to Hell. God does not decide this, He lets us choose. I think He spoke through a woman (and according to my aunt "He" is a woman) when Eleanor Roosevelt said something about Hell beginning on the day you see everything you could have been, all the happiness you could have had, had you not been afraid to go after it.

Go after it with me today! Hell isn't a fun place to be, just ask anybody who doesn't believe in themselves, stays in a miserable marriage, or sees the world as a terrible place. Living fearlessly and free is much better, almost as if it's Heaven on Earth???