I went into the woods
to count the countless trees,
where three hundred years
is young,
found they indeed have a number
the ancient mossy stumps of giants
felled long ago
host seedlings that may never
grow
to the heights of their ancestors
while the wind through the pine boughs
are whispered legends, myths in Mi’kmaq
quietly told to others who will never understand.
© Erik Hansen 2018
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Technical difficulties are forcing me to push the release date of “Cicadas”, my new collection of poetry, to next Friday, April 6th.
It will be available as an eBook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo and others while I will announce the paperback release in approximately a month from now.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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Here is the second tentative cover. I am leaning towards this one as it is a cleaner, more simplistic look.
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Tentative cover for the soon to be released “Cicadas” (4/1/2018)
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Hey all! It’s been a while I know; I’ve been super busy getting Cicadas ready and writing several short stories at the same time.
I did manage to get the new website up and running and you can find signed paperback copies of Compass there at a discount!
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I am a firm believer in the acquisition of empirical knowledge over propositional knowledge.
Real life over book learning.
This is not to say that learning from books has no value rather that it should be part of the whole learning and life experience.
For me to tell you that you can “only live your life but you can read someone else’s” is actually disingenuous. Case in point, anyone who read Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” back when it came out in 2003, found out later that they had read a total lie.
To achieve what Kierkgaard referred to as Erfahrung, we need to get out and get face to face with the world around us, that, in order to understand the diverse and multi-faceted nature of the world, of humanity and of the human condition, we need to get out and meet it and talk to it, to recognize and immerse ourselves in the experiential nature of human epistemology. You simply can’t select a book by a “diverse” author and think you will comprehend their experience, their life.
You may acquire some insight by doing so, but to think you’ve found some sort of touchstone of diversity and, thereby an enlightened perspective is fantasy.
This is not to say I am discouraging people from reading as much as they can, on the contrary.
I think you should read as much as you can when you are not out exploring both near and far, meeting all the many people who may or may not look or think like you and having simple conversations.
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I began working on a short story submission recently and, of course, the idea has snowballed.
“Listening” was originally supposed to be a science fiction short set on a space station orbiting Jupiter close to Europa.
So, naturally, I begin to wander around in the cavernous expanse of my own imagination…
Does this story have the chops to be something more?
A novella?
A novel?
Holy bovine! Do I know how to overcomplicate things or what? I have to resist the temptation to keep going and going. Maybe in the future I could revisit these wonderful ideas, but for now its really important to keep the original goal in mind and write what I intended.
Write.
Write.
Write.
Remember there is such a thing as a word count limit for a short story submission.
And a deadline.
Keep on writing and edit later.
Its okay to dream big but finishing what I originally intended to start is more important to me as a writer.
Write.
Write some more.
Finish what you start and achieve the small goals you set for yourself each day.
Everything else will work itself out in the end.
Back to Laxmi Station; Colonel Jannik De Aguila needs to safely dock the Martian cutter “Mobius”.
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