"Gratitude"
"Stones of the Wooded Valley"
By Benjamin Fortier
Reading by Scott Chapman
18 Jan 2025
I write to remind people what it feels like to feel again. This is what gratitude looks like.
While working on a side writing project in my room, I stumbled across a personal note written to me from my author buddy Ben Fortier.
In the summer of 2023, I answered the question, "What would you do if you knew the day your heart would shatter? What's all the fuss? Why does it matter?"
I knew my old battered vessel would succumb to the negative events inbound. I deployed a series of covert new timelines to uplift others as a desperate means to ride a wave of positive energy upward. A scientific approach of energy manipulation. I'm only now beginning to untangle that tale.
"The Instant"
Written by: Mary Oliver
Read by: Scott Chapman
"A Thousand Mornings"
Read on 04 Jan 25
Page 51
Enjoy the real time regulation of emotion by singing a symphony with me and Mary Oliver. Recanted by Scott Chapman.
Sit side car while I skate the slippery slopes of advancing timelines. Connecting the present with the past while guided by the sonnet of synchronicity.
I'm an author who writes his life in real time. If you had to read your own life story out loud, would you read of a character you look up to?
A gift from My Love. A recording made in ritual for my distant Queen. A vibration to keep us connected. Shared with permission from my Popsicle Pincer Scorpion Queen.
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"Positive Solutions"
1/11, The night of the first New Moon in 2024.
I recorded this reading in my hotel room while working on the Southern Border. I spent a week shadowing archeologists while they searched for paleolithic artifacts and relics north of the Rio Grande.
We talked about philosophy, the beauty of magnetism, and the natural oscillation cycles of our star while scanning for cartel threats and big cats. I never realized how strange my life was until I stopped to take a look around.
Thank you for watching and reading about my humble little life.
"Keep Your Powder Dry" at the VetRep Theater
September 11th, 2023. Chris from VetRep Theater invited me to read "Keep Your Powder Dry" on their special 9/11 edition of the "Write Loud" series.
This is my first reading any audience. It's also my first live reading. Can you see the tangled tuft of imbalance?
For context, in the video, I'm 4 days from moving from Florida and my house is boxed up around me. A future data dump inbound.
My phone is propped up on two plastic bins in the corner of an empty room. The illusion of order among my welcomed companions of chaos.