Most if not all of our lives are spent in states of spiritual unconsciousness. We grow up with little clue as to the true nature of our realities. We don’t understand who we are, or what our abilities might truly consist of. We really don’t. We believe we are in control, and we battle to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
We are all creatures of unconsciousness
Posted: March 27, 2009 in Brandon McInerney, children, Crime, criminal, family, life, murder, news, transformation, Tyler EdmondsTags: Ben, Brandon McInerney, consciousness, Eckhart Tolle, Graham Pressley, Jesse James Hollywood, Larry King, Nicholas Markowitz, Ryan Hoyt, transformation, Tyler Edmonds, William
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One perspective on Brandon McInerney, his father, and death on court day
Posted: March 19, 2009 in Brandon McInerney, children, family, life, news, politics, Stolen BoyTags: Bank of Books, Bill, Brandon McInerney, Brian Vogel, consciousness, District Attorney, Eckhart, Larry King, Maeve Fox, new earth, now, Oxnard, police, power, Robyn Bramson, Scott Wippert, Tolle, transformation, Ventura County, William
I hardly knew the man, but I understood him well. Thick, tall, and deeply troubled, William McInerney wore the weight of someone tied to the bottom of a run away locomotive. He reeked from the guilt associated with crimes his son had been charged with. I had spoken with Bill several times since I first started [...]
TYLER’S CORNER: Another day in paradise
Posted: March 16, 2009 in Stolen BoyTags: children, Crime, juveniles, Mississippi, murder, Tyler Edmonds
me sitting in the front bucket of the backhoe, lifted in the air the day my trial ended. Looking at the sun is so refreshing these days. Since 2003, there weren’t many times when I really noticed the sun. I was too focused on what I was facing ahead to appreciate what little I did [...]
Award-winning author Michael Mehas teaches the craft of storytelling, March 28th and 29th
Posted: March 13, 2009 in news, seminar, Stolen Boy, writingTags: college, emotion, Hemingway, novel, scenes, Stolen Boy, story, telling, Ventura, writers, writing
Legendary author Ernest Hemingway once described the difficulties he faced with telling story: “I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced…the real thing, the sequences of motion and fact which [...]
Brandon McInerney files Petition for Review with California Supreme Court
Posted: March 9, 2009 in Brandon McInerney, Crime, criminal, life, news, politicsTags: 707, Brandon McInerney, California, Crime, institutions, Larry King, life, murder, Prop, Proposition 21, Robyn Bramson, Scott Wippert, supreme court, United Defense Group, Ventura, welfare
Brandon McInerney has recently filed a Petition for Review with the California Supreme Court. The Petition can be found in its entirety here: PETITION FOR REVIEW. The issue presented for review is fairly straight forward: Whether a minor, whose case is discretionarily “direct-filed” in a criminal court pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 707(d), [...]
Joseph Giacona III is just a child
Posted: March 4, 2009 in children, Crime, murder, news, politicsTags: Crime, family, Joseph Giacona, life, murder, New York, news, Oneida County, politics, Stolen Boy
I sit here and I look at these photos, and my head swells with sadness. Because all I see is a child, the sweet face of a teenager who is accused of murdering his father. Again, I encourage you to look at that face. We don’t yet see the trouble, the danger that supposedly lurks [...]
TYLER’S CORNER: MY THOUGHTS ON MERIT AND JUSTICE IN AMERICA
Posted: March 2, 2009 in family, life, news, Tyler EdmondsTags: adult, Crime, Edmonds, juveniles, life, Mississippi, murder, news, politics
Introduction What is merit and why do we as a society value and embrace it? Merit, by definition of the dictionary, is the quality or actions that constitute the basis of one’s deserts (desert being rewards or punishment). What we commonly refer to as “justice” in our society is, in essence, the merit and/or deserts [...]
