The Right Words

Dear Viewer:I hope you arrived here well and ready to contemplate! Thanks for coming. Here I discuss—while going off on tangents about social media and pay walls (and a few other things), Dr. Richard Dawkins, the eminently erudite and moral Cambridge professor of biology, famous atheist, lecturer and proponent of reason and virtue and his letter, here on Substack, to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the famous hu...

Writing, Recording and Image ( " For The Collateral Expendable") Copyright 2017 - 2024 Carl Atteniese II / All rights reserved. More below:This image was captured at the World Trade Center Memorial, of a portion of one of the embankments that surround one of the two former foundations which once supported the two destroyed in the terror attacks directed my Islamic Jihadists com… This is a public e...

Welcome to The Right Words Podcast. I'm Carl Atteniese. Anguk is an area adjacent to Insa dong, Seoul, where I lived for a time in the nineties—in the capital city of South Korea. I later moved on to other fascinating locales in that surprising, North-east Asian peninsula nation, but something happened one night, in Anguk--that was scary--but rewarding. There I was, suddenly confronted with the ch...

Another version of this is at Wordpress, where my blog is, here . This is a late posting. It’s been on You Tube since November 13, 2024. I also look terrible in it, because this is before I shaved my head. I’m not bald; I just don’t want to deal with hair for a while, as life has been very challenging, and when it is such, it’s a very feminine endeavor, dealing with hair, in my opinion, for a man...

NOTE to THE LISTENER: Dear Listener:Thank you for being here. This is podcast is a primer for conversation; as such, there are generalizations in this essay that could be developed or further explained in a long-form discussion. Keeping in mind the theme of this podcast and my philosophy (listening for the meaning, not the words), it is important for the good-faith listener to know, generally, wha...

© Copyright 2023 Carl Mando Atteniese / All rights reserved. In Zen 1, Carl—AKA “Mando” —explains why we sit in meditation, and the misconceptions about that in terms of Zen ; he briefly teaches how to meditate in this primer for future lessons—and describes benefits (often confused as the initial goals of meditation); Carl draws on his own training in Korea and Japan and from his reading over the...

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Written, Produced and Performed by Carl “Mando” Atteniese, Copyright 2023 / All rights reserved. Intro & Outro music: Electronic Future Beats by Cubesounds & Featured track selection: Winning Elevation by Hot Music for Pixabay online. Special thanks to Hecham Dierdari, Nancy Atteniese Gerber & Jon Gerber, Carl & Anne Atteniese and Bobby Dief. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss...

by Carl Atteniese II This is part three in my series called “Believe What What You Want”, questioning whether this concept is hurting us. In my last installment in this series, I mentioned that, because seemingly innocuous concepts are accepted as believable —or accepted as non-problematic, as notions acceptable to think— true and their lack of logic and evidence is ignored and given a social pass...

This poem can also be read here. Beyond The Fishbowl Crossfield flew across the barrier* Then Shepard rocketed so high And of Gagarin and Kamarov before them– What did they feel? Not ‘why?’ Truly, there is no membrane; We live on a gas-ensconced globe, Spinning and wobbling ’bout its axis Barrelling in lock and roll Circling a star–in turn racing Round the galaxy’s swirling bright core Itself shot...

The text of this essay will be published in the newsletter for subscribers. Alternately, you can go to my medium account—but that version needs an update. Why not subscribe and have all your right words in one place? Writing, Narration, Art and Production by & Copyright Carl Atteniese 2022/All rights reserved Music Licensed from Pixabay : 1. Electronic Future Beats by Qubesounds 2. Lifelike by Ale...

‘Don’t’ Rest in Peace... Astro Walt! Now, unbound Beyond Terra's orbit — You can reach the Jovian moons! And— Returning to this watery green— And cloud-swept Earth— Make visit at coveted Mars… Leaving again—with No loss for delta V— Your new freedom can take you Tween the stars! Thank you—for your service And getting Apollo to Luna! And Artemis will thank you— When she touches down— With a gratefu...

The argument reaches its end, and one of you says it; it is the point in time in the conversation at which the speaker realizes that the listener is not going to see reason– in the w ay that the speaker delineated it. It’s a soft insult or “micro-aggression” to suggest, in other words, that the speaker is saying “I give up” or “you’re unreasonable” ; remember when that word had meaning, Americans?...

Bolt the door On once dark ages Which in sinister drafts do pry Blowing down the steps of justice Thoughtless, loveless From on high Through the missing words of sages Robed, they poise To rend our light Having loosed the hinge on rages Their inked-claws Our laws rewrite NOTE: The views you may glean from this work are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of whom I mention in the acknowledg...

We don’t have to feel we have lost someone; in fact, it’s the opposite…. You can read this poem here . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * Profile image of Carl ………..…Marc Longmire * Founding Contributor ………….Hicham Derdari * Art Life Contributor …………….Professor Sahara Shin Music Licensed by Pixabay : 1. Electronic Future Beats by Qubesounds2. Ambient Caves of Dawn by Guilherme Bernardes3. Forest Lullaby by Les FM...

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