When writing a post recently for Visionary Fiction Alliance about the relevance of visionary fiction in today’s world, I realized how important “story” is to our lives. I’m not just talking about the stories written by our favorite authors for our reading pleasure. I’m talking about our life stories, the stories that begin on page one of a blank […]
Freedom
What is Freedom?
In the course of writing my four novels, I asked myself repeatedly, “What is freedom?” Eventually I came to realize that there are as many answers to that question as there are human circumstances in this world.
Freedom is Choice
Giving up freedom I hate losing stuff. I hate losing valuable time. I hate losing friends. I hate losing money. But most of all, I hate losing freedom. I would give up stuff, time, and money for freedom. I’d give up friends who threaten my freedom. Losing my freedom is unacceptable. Pure and simple. Then […]
Struggling to Break Free
A subject that fuels my writing is the universal struggle for spiritual and emotional freedom. The struggle for freedom also inspires Zenos Frudakis’s work. In a statement about his bronze sculpture, “Freedom,” located at the GSK World Headquarters in Philadelphia, Zenos says: “I wanted to create a sculpture almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognize that it is about […]
