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August 10, 2021

MY BREATH

By Teak Kilmer

My breath deceives me

every night

but every morn

I brush it bright

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Spiritual Etymology

February 03, 2022

Spiritual Etymology by Teak Kilmer Pythagoras discovered God through the amazing orderliness of the Universe proven in mathematics. An early proof for me is what lies hidden in language . One day I discovered (without cover, to reveal) the true essence of the word Universe (see description below) and thus began my quest to explore word origins and my elation at their once intended wonder. Note how the ancients viewed the world, how spiritually they experienced it, how much more forgiving and beautiful their experience and how we have reduced the concepts of our religious and spiritual terms, made blessings into mundane and even sometimes punitive, fear, guilt-ridden and controlling concepts. One of these concepts is the concept of dogma. One day, I looked at the word dogma , and it seemed to be struggling to get my attention. I had never had this happen before. I looked at the word carefully and diligently, and I realized that dogma spelled backwards is “Am God” ; theref

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Peanut Butter and Bacon July 30 th , 2009 By Teak Kilmer Hadn’t seen Michael since my wedding eight years ago and longer before that We sat in his disordered writer’s hovel and talked His heart and his soul were, however, in as fine a fettle as ever and I knew that that, and memories, were why I was there We had painful, despairing childhoods, tragedies and rebellious acts strewn about like garbage in the streets But we two half Irish boys became joined at the lip and by the heart, and in our despite-it-alls We shared blues and jazz and honky-tonk that in the 40s and 50s were both historic and new From “Ja Da” and Joe “Fingers” Carr, Bix Biederbeck and Josh White, Richie Havens, Joan Baez Louis Armstrong in his underwear as we crashed his dressing room, the Village Gate and “Take Five”, Cafe Wha, Eddie Condon's Jazz club, dancing with Nina Simone after her concert at Cornell University, gingerly sneaking into Mike’s older brother Rick&#

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Teak: My name is Teak Kilmer, well really, it's Thalas Garadus Groospeck Macelious Quackenbush Michael Meiers Kilmer Jr. (and that's the reason I’m an alcoholic). Truth be told, these are more names than are on my birth certificate, but I grew up believing these were all my names (a joke my family played on me). I really am an addict and have emotion sickness from trauma and genetics. My life has been a wild but challenging ride. I have accomplished much, met nearly 50 famous people, and have a plethora of amazing stories. I'm also an observer of life, a poet, writer, copy editor, amateur 'spiritual' etymologist, fine furniture artist, former and co-founder of the Minnesota Woodworkers' Guild (now second largest in the nation), reformer of the American massage equipment industry from basically nearly junk quality to having maybe the best equipment anywhere. At age 15, in 1956, I successfully began a civil rights movement in my high school fraternity. In 1957, I formed and directed the Dacey Family Charity to replace my fraternity brother's home that burned down and was not insured. This intro is continued on my blog titled: An Intro -Teak the Poet Tree.

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