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HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON! ... BONER, THE PIANO DOG ... November 27, 1994 ... February 20, 2010

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January 17, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

When I take Mo out with me and the weather is good, he can sit on top of the piano for about twenty to thirty minutes before he becomes to fidgety and then he needs to get lifted off and put on the ground to walk around as I continue onward with my work. Of course I lift him into the truck and then get into the truck myself to left him onto the piano. I myself am not as strong as I was just a year ago when I could lift him onto the piano from the ground. Part of Mo wants to be on the piano as that has been is spot for almost 16 years and another part of him is confused as to why he can't move around. He does know now that he will fall over if he moves. In his younger days he would be all over the place. On some days he was moving constantly pacing back and forth on top of the piano to not miss seeing or smelling anything.

January 16, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I have enjoyed creating collections throughout life. I still collect. For example, I have a small collection in my room of rocks and gems found throughout the journey. These days, there is an absolute point where I say "stop" with any collecting, probably because I live in such a small space and have no choice. Now, I collect small things to fit in a small space. I enjoy what I own immensely. I see no use in having nice things hidden and stored away. Back when I owned a house I had a rock collection that filled an entire truck, no kidding. When I sold my home and moved for this journey, I turned the collection over to a friend who had a farm for stewardship and hired four guys to move it all. There were actual boulders and large glacier rocks. I used to store things with the thought that some day I would do something with it all. Right now I have a collection of photos in storage from throughout the journey. I would like to sell them.

Many are already printed, framed and signed. At this time last year I had a gallery up the street where space was given to use. When people would come up to give me a few bucks I would say half jokingly that, "I cannot get a bottle of water for a few bucks, if you would like to show support, go check out my photos for $20". That was working out very well and the main agenda was to have one spot for the first time ever with the Traveling Piano to showcase it to find backing along with the agenda to get my photos out into the world and into peoples hands verses online. It was also a great way to create interactions with people. The owner of the space had drug addicts living on the property and they fucked up the entire situation while the owner allowed that. Oh well, what was really great for the community and me turned into not so great. I still have a lot of inventory and its not meant to be a personal collection. I must find a way to raise some financing from what I have left.

January 15, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

My friend Eric went to his church and made a presentation asking members for blankets. Specifically he said, warm blankets and comforters for people on the streets. He collected about thirty five of them, really nice... too nice to be thrown away or just left wherever after one night. But then again... who am I to judge to whom these blankets are given? My job is to see someone in need and to help them out. Just like with my pillows, I had two extra and gave them out at Christmas. If someone feels special, warm, loved and secure for just one night, thats enough. Hell, for that matter if its just for 5 minutes... good enough. People spend $100 on gambling at a casino and five minutes later the thrill is gone. They pay $15 for a 90 second roller coaster ride. The enjoyment of a fifty dollar meal is gone by the next day. A blanket no matter the worth on the cold ground for night... makes me think of the word "perspective." Worth is relative for feeling value and nothing more when it comes to humanity. I gave my coat to a guy on the streets seven years ago. He is still around and talks about it to others at ever opportunity. I know this because others tell me.

January 14, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Last June, I began finding pianos online that people no longer wanted. Then, I found people to help me move them and placed them all over in downtown Las Vegas for the community. I would go around every night when walking Mo to check on them and play on them. I put small signs on them saying they are Community Traveling Piano's with a QR code for people to contribute. Since June, four people have contributed a total of $31 bucks. Wow... not. I would cover them with tarps and bungie chords when it rained, clean them from the desert dust, tape them up when someone would break a piece. Of all the tuners in Vegas one responded to help tune one piano . That was it. They are all too uppity. People have cried as they told me how significant it is to have a piano to play on because they have no room in their apartment to have one. I know at least six homeless people who play on them daily. One said, "this is how I find my peace". Homeless people have helped to protect them. Well, the pianos are almost done, falling apart, out of tune, two piano's (the worst ones) had been stolen. Two benches, stolen. Once one person stole a tarp when I put them on... that began a trend. Now they just get soaked when it rains.

After a rain none of the keys play but... then they dry out and become playable again. One piano was moved because someone tried to set fire to it. Probably some kids drunk from a nearby club. At one spot, the furthest away, the restaurant one of the pianos is next to said they would help take care of it and call me if something went wrong. They totally blew off that offer. As Mo is able to walk less and less everyday I can only get to it to check on once a week. The restaurant called me two days ago for the first time to say its in bad shape. They really want me to get rid of it but did not say that because, they know it has fallen apart because of them. Now... they care, when its no longer of use. I suggested to a few homeless people that they go and take it apart for firewood and get the wire from the strings. All in all, the pianos have lasted what will soon be eight months! I think thats pretty good out in the elements. Three are left somewhat play-able out of seven. I love that the city has not been able to touch any of them to try and take control for the sake of taking control as they do with everything. I am a smart cookie. I found all visible spots where the business owners are city ordinance coded to have control of the spaces. They obstruct nothing and draw little attention.

January 13, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Everyday now revolves around Mo. When he was young I had to stay intensely connected with his energy, being careful for example to watch that he did not run into the street by accident. I never stopped him but he knew not to do it because we were connected through energy. My attention was on him. That was all that was needed for him to behave for his entire life. We would go to the movies together, be anywhere in the wild, walk into casinos with no leash because... our attention and energy were always connected. There have always been periods of time where I just let go of him in thought so he can be on his own until he chooses to reconnect, especially when walking. No more. Now I have to watch him constantly. If I walk ahead he sometimes falls down and I have to walk half a block back to get him back up and walking again. Its interesting how with his back leg joints just about completely shot, he never looks like he is in pain and never expresses any.

January 12, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I am a list maker. I make so many lists that they constantly overlap and repeat. It has always been a necessity, not to reach any goal but to help prioritize the trillion of thoughts going through my brain in every moment. With the severe dyslexia I have always dealt with and the trauma that has resulted while growing up because no one knew what dyslexia was, I cannot operate without lists. One of the most common challenging traits traits I've mentioned in this blog over the years has been with the issue of having any where-with-all. That is because I have always suffered from feeling overwhelmed, confused and literally lost in my head. My experience throughout my formative years was dominated with feeling stupid, disempowered and "special" in not good ways.

Feeling isolated in relationship from others, I was never able to feel part of. Dyslexia played a huge role in that along with the fact that I was inquisitive, wanted to be creative, gay and knew that paying the role everyone want to give to me in order to feel "part of" was not going to work. Family and society for me was authoritarian with a hierarchy full of fallacies and corruption. They used to call it conservative. That has now become full blown fascist because at its core that is what it always was. I knew it from the start and fought the gas-lighting with every "tooth and nail." Anyway, now I fight every tooth and nail to continue to understand myself from the past and to live in the truth of spirit that I have found and nurtured through life, through the grace of God. Lists keep me on track with all that.

January 11, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I will continue to do what it takes to stand up for all those suppressed, those now dead and those suffering as a result of fascism and those who support it knowingly or not. I believe in equality and basic human rights. There are specific issues my life has been drawn to concerning that. The Traveling Piano has never been one dimensional. It serves for life in many ways. Along with musical fun, friendship and respect, empowerment and inspiration... my work has always made it a point to be a voice for those racially and ethnically suppressed immigrant or otherwise, for American democracy, the environment, homelessness, alcohol and drug addiction, water as a basic human right, lgtbq issues, christianity in the truth of spirit, my Ukrainian heritage and genocides in other places specifically now in Gaza and the West Bank where Palestinians live. These social issues have been ongoing in the blog of almost twenty years.

January 10, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

For anyone to finally "wake up" because being "woke" with thoughts like, oops, millions of people have died because of what I supported, I didn't realize, I'm so sorry"... that would never work for me. Apologies came in three parts. That would be acknowledgment, remorse and empathy and then restitution through amends. None of that is possible for a truly indoctrinated republican fascist. They are unconstitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. They are just like addicts. Their drugs are their authoritarians. That is what rules their mind, body and souls. Usually, they just need to get shoved back under the rocks they crawled out from under. In WWII we just went to kill as many as possible because... fascism isn't defeated by voting or the law.

January 09, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

The labels of Republican and Democrat, Independent or anything else has died. We are now dealing with fascism out to destroy life as we know it for ownership, profit, manipulation, use and control of humans for the sake of a few. Fascism will not work, never has, never will and is against human truth in spirit. Fuck trump, fuck all republican politicians, fuck maga supporters, fuck the CEO's of this planet. I do not care if people have been fooled or not. They must be treated as adults and held accountable for their ignorance. There does come a point where the idea of "survival of the fittest" enters into human reality as with other species. Boundaries and limits are a reality in life.

January 08, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I've been told that our American democracy needs constant, nurturing and attention least we risk losing it. Do not become complacent concerning politics or we will lose our constitution and freedoms. Well, that is happening real fast. We are losing all our freedoms. While most people are becoming exhausted in dealing with fighting it, as they wither, I will stand strong for myself first and foremost. I've never been a just lay down and die type of person although every fiver of my being wants to be that way. It is just who I am in spirit. I've spent my entire life to reach the point where I am in maturity. I have worked hard to know myself and others and human nature at its core. I am not about to throw away my life, my personal knowledge, hands on experience with people from all walks of life, what I have learned about right and wrong while spending time throughout the world and in communities both rural and urban throughout America. My ethics and moral character will not allow me to be silent. I will NOT be silent about life and death for myself or others.

January 07, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

I was totally indoctrinated into diocesan roman catholic, republican authoritarianism throughout my formative years while knowing at the same time something was wrong at every turn. How could my own family be talking about their neighbors and family negatively behind backs? How can they justify what is obviously wrong, the political lies, cheating, manipulation to get what they want through governmental politics? As I matured and individualized "through the grace of God," I found what was right, the truth. Turning Point comes to mind with last years assassination of Charlie Kirk. What a disgusting organization calling itself religious.

Those people my societal "circle of trust" criticized throughout my life were on the right side of what it is to be human at the core and in the truth of spirit. For my first twenty-five years I lived in confusion, doubt, chaos and self-disrespect from those in my life. The second 25 years I spent exploring it all to understand and learn who I really am as a person and to embrace my true intent in order to own the self-respect I have been able to share with the world. With that, the Traveling Piano journey began and I am an additional twenty years into this third stage of life. I have garnered a clear understanding of exactly "what" was wrong with the politics of my upbringing. It was all about hierarchy and authoritarianism propped up through lies, manipulation and control.

January 06, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Sadly, an example of authoritarianism at it worst is with cops. With all the propping up of "thank you for your service" I always say... show me a cop that will call out corruption in the ranks, who will stand up for truth and justice to protect and serve when it comes to their own criminals in the force... and I will show you a good cop. Find me one, just one! It will be actually one in a million because of their indoctrinated brother/sisterhood, that "inner circle of trust." They are too weak and spineless, full of fear themselves for whatever reason to stand up and fight for what is right. The most they can do for themselves is quit the job. Throughout the Traveling Piano journey I have met a total of two cops who quit rather than report their fellow officers or superiors. I've dealt personally with over a 1,000 law enforcement officers throughout my journey.

January 05, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

A perfect example of being tossed when no long of use for authoritarians is our US Veterans. Use them, thank them for their service, toss them to the streets. All republican politicians have repeatedly voted against and have actually removed US veteran support. Another perfect example of authoritarian deception is the mis-use of religion. That is one of the top tools for the authoritarian deception. There is a reason our founding fathers created a separation between church and state. Look at what is happening concerning religion becoming a dominate force in US government now! It is what republicans have always screamed and preached loudest about Muslim countries. They are trying to turn the US into the exact hell hole they have preached against for my entire life. As a practicing Christian, (not through any religion) it turns my stomach into pure hate.

January 04, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

Republicanism now transparent as fascism, demands an "inner circle of trust" as dictated by an authoritarian while selling the false rationalization that what they are doing "it is best for everyone." This makes them "special" and elite. They really mean "their own" and fuck everyone else. Their lives mean nothing and if others die, no problem or just rationalize, rationalize, rationalize. Most who suck on republican fascism do not realize that they are in that "inner circle of trust" as long as they can be "used". They have zero power or influence or worth and will be discarded when rendered useless for the powers that be. The concept of being elite and special has always been dominant for them.

January 03, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

It is what it is here... I was born into republicanism. I tried in many, many ways to embrace it throughout life and spent years understanding it at the core. I have found now after seventy years of observation that republicanism at the core enables lies, coverup, self-centeredness, manipulation, force, threat, fear, domination, obligation, expectation and control. Never has a republican ever admitted defeat or wrongs or even wrong doing. Even when they are exposed... still, they just lie through their teeth. Give me an example otherwise. There are none! Now republicans have turned full on fascist are trying to re-write the truth of spirit as fascists dictate. Are you still sucking on republican media sources? Are you still voting republican because you feel there is no other choice? You are a fascist. I do not like fascists. Everything bad is now good? Just say no to that. Fight it at every turn. Destroy that kind of thinking.

January 02, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

US politics have always been dominated by both capitalism and socialism at the same time. The goal has been to live together equally for the sake of all, the whole. A government of the people, for the people verses kings and fascist dictators. That has been the goal. Our capitalism and socialism has been defined through two main political forces. What was Republicanism, those who have always favored the tearing down and rebuilding for the sake of profit... and that of Democratic Socialism always favoring the value of what exists and building on that through insight, trial and error, admitting mistakes and learning from them to move forward. This has always been the USA's democratic way. This is why American Democracy has always been described as an experiment. It affords the opportunity to both succeed and fail for the sake of being all that can be according to the constitution.

January 01, 2026

Las Vegas, Nevada

The Traveling Piano has always been political. In the beginning I used to say that I have no commercial, organizational or political affiliation. There is much more to being political than belonging to a political party/organization. We all live in a society together and work through politics to do that. A fascist republican last week started a sentence to me after making it clear that "what is happening is for the best"... he began to say that he did not care if I was a liberal democrat"... I cut him off and said fuck that. I am no longer interested in that old, now non-existent liberal verses conservative, labeling, parroted bullshit... I am 100% against fascism and that is what we are dealing with now. No further discussion.