As a matter of fact I would rather live in the land of Everis than Neverwas, though I appreciated the film of the latter title with its remarkable cast. Imagination is a wonderful thing, but when it begins to confuse fantasy with reality there are some obvious problems not compatible with the real world in which we live. And there is no discounting the fact of what is, is.

The Apostle Paul correctly pointed out the things of childhood eventually give way to adulthood, and while parents encourage the best things of childhood they also hope their children will mature and not think or behave childishly when they become adults. But TV and the MSM presents an America of Neverwas as opposed to Everis.

In Everis the realities of life are ever with us and not only has all the memories of the past but builds on these enabling us to live in the present, hour by hour and day by day, the things that enable people to mature in their thoughts and actions. While living in the present, healthy maturation enables us to continue living with the people and memories of the past that mean so much to what we become as adults. And while the very best memories of childhood should remain with us, helping to fashion the best we become as adults being those things of Everis we learn to live with the realities of life in the present. Reverie and nostalgia can be fine things, but the best of these never remove us from Everis; quite the contrary.

Life is not what American TV and the MSM presents, it is not what ordinary Americans live in their every day struggles. In far too many ways TV and the MSM is a land of Neverwas in which, in no way to disparage a fine film, plastic representations of “life” are paraded onscreen and in the MSM as though they were the realities, punctuated here and there with some of the madness in America that is tolerated and becomes “news,” and a generation that has been immersed in this medium that is largely a canard has never matured. And because of this deep and widespread lack of maturity in some ways I see America slipping into the madness of Neverwas, and while some forms of madness may be relatively harmless those that lead away from Everis are leading America into a mad fantasy of which there can be no happy ending.

Who of a sane mind can view the political scene on TV or in the MSM and say this is the product of healthy minds? Rather, it is the worst form of childishness, a fantasy paraded before the entire world, a world that increasingly views these scenes and becomes increasingly concerned that America is in fact a childishly lunatic nation led of childish lunatics, and even worse dangerous, childish lunatics! Believing I am of a sane mind and in full possession of my faculties, I watch what is happening and have to wonder what kind of mental illness may be the driving force in America today that no leader arises to turn our nation away from the increasingly dangerous and consuming madness of it all? But I see none that give me any confidence they are themselves possessed of sane and healthy mind.

I often give myself over to whimsy; I am fascinated by ancient Egypt and things both supernatural and scientific but I retain a firm grip on reality and the present in which I live; and doing so I do not become lost in a world of Neverwas but live in the world of Everis. I’m among the last to find fault with the legends and myths of antiquity, with the wonderful fantasies of Hollywood like the great musicals of the past, but I have never allowed these to cloud my mind from the real world in which I live.

Life is not a game and I have no use for those that perversely “game” other people, like politicians seeking some kind of advantage whether it is to feed the conceit of an unhealthy mind or materially. I can abide a “Walter Mitty” so long as he remains in his own world without impacting mine or others adversely, I could wish I had my own “Harvey” but I don’t confuse the wish with reality. Even as I believe the spirits of loved ones and friends remain with me, they are a part of Everis rather than any apparitions of the past, and at that I do not insist any share my belief.

I’m surrounded by the mementos of the past such as pictures and letters of loved ones and friends who have gone on before me. But I don’t live in the past; I live in the present and these loved ones and friends remain with me in Everis. However, unlike Neverwas, Everis remains my hope of immortality and is itself I believe immortal since it never passes away, but like a circle without beginning or end simply Everis.