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Just Released! Ten Years Navigating: essays, poems, art
Just Released! Ten Years Navigating: essays, poems, art
In three volumes Mark R. Turner offers selected essays which he posted with illustrations in his blog throughout the years 2016-2026. Responses to conditions and actions perpetrated by the Trump/MAGA regime, these present Mark's thoughts on resisting evil and maintaining the Good. The principles are timeless making the essays helpful for renewal in both the reader's personal life and the world at large. While Mark views his writing as contributions to the wider conversation, he hopes that contemplation of the images, poetry and essays will help readers re-engage in our common growth out of wrong behaviors which humanity has practiced from time immemorial. These are re-affirmations of attitudes which will br expressed in behaviors engendering thriving Life.
Breaking Out - blog with poem & cartoon June 5, 2026
Breaking Out - blog with poem & cartoon June 5, 2026
It is common knowledge that lighting, cameras, acting, special effects are like shadows on a screen. Show business works hard to maintain the illusion for the value of their ticket sales. They don’t want you looking behind the set, costumes and make-up. But there is that factor of the audience’s “willing suspension of disbelief,” voluntarily agreeing to accept the given façade and script for the sake of a good time. In the public arena this is compounded by...
How to De-Normalize Evil - blog May 20, 2026
How to De-Normalize Evil - blog May 20, 2026
We spend much time and energy in the necessary work of naming wrongs and speaking out in Congress, courts and public streets against the evils being perpetrated. This is a crucial work, as I said in the blog “The List for Resilience”. But it is only one step in pushing back the current regime’s attempts
"Watch for the Signs" short art film
"Watch for the Signs" short art film
Explore Mark R. Turner's books
Explore Mark R. Turner's books
Enjoy the short stories, poetry, novellas, plays and non-fiction by Mark R. Turner. Click on any of the cover images to go to the purchasing sites for each book. Mark is working on more books and you can get announcements for the new ones by getting on our mailing list using the form to the
Poem: "Learning from the Trees"
Poem: "Learning from the Trees"
Poem: "Learning from the Trees" by Mark R. Turner on Patreon. Join Mark R. Turner's community for exclusive content and updates.
Download your copies of Mark R. Turner's poems
Download your copies of Mark R. Turner's poems
Mark R. Turner's poems grow out of his contemplative discipline as he distills spiritual insights and observations of the world into language that ushers us into our own contemplation. He also matches many of his poems with visuals which enhance the contemplation. Selected poetry and visuals are gradually being posted here with links to make
Mark's contemplative BLOG with original art and photography
Mark's contemplative BLOG with original art and photography
Gesture Repeat - digital painting
Gesture Repeat - digital painting
Art Workbook - participate in my painting
Art Workbook - participate in my painting
Tales to Cultivate the Soul: 11 Alternative Stories
Tales to Cultivate the Soul: 11 Alternative Stories
These eleven short stories help you contemplate wisdom of the ages in modern language and settings. Some are published here for the first time and others are compiled from books already offered individually. Originally presented as stage plays, Mark has adapted them for reading in the way he would direct them on stage. This lends them easily to reading aloud and links are provided to some of the scripts for groups to read aloud together. Some are full of funny characters and witty dialogue. Others show the pathos of life and death, the passage of time and the struggles to relate with one another. All the stories entertain and lead in thinking about life in the metropolis, the forest, the small town and on the farm. Timeless ideas connect you with ancestors, ancient history and the mystery beyond the grave. Themes include death, generosity, Love, family, growing up, healing, community, making art, faith, terrorism, and the meaning of Christmas.
BOOK: From Space Dust to Cities : art, poetry, essays
BOOK: From Space Dust to Cities : art, poetry, essays
From Space Dust to Cities: pictures, poems, and essays [Turner, Mark R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. From Space Dust to Cities: pictures, poems, and essays
Patreon: sparking imagination
Patreon: sparking imagination
Get more from Mark R. Turner on Patreon. creating sparks for imagination. Support Mark R. Turner and get exclusive access to their work.
VISUAL ARTS PAGE on Horizongate
VISUAL ARTS PAGE on Horizongate
A wide variety of visual arts have always been an important aspect of our offerings. Here we try to make our pictures and designs accessible for you to contemplate in many ways. Your choice to purchase items supports the artists in Horizon Gate. Mark R. Turner usually posts original art with each blog and poetry
Artistic Gifts for All Budgets by MarkArTurner
Artistic Gifts for All Budgets by MarkArTurner
Find over 99 designs by artist Mark R. Turner enhancing apparel, bags, accessories, home décor, cases and stationary. This video shows only a few beautiful i...
“To the Diggers” film – Horizongate
“To the Diggers” film – Horizongate
This re-release is even more timely in 2024 than when it was first released in 2011. Mark R. Turner reads his 2006 poem, as the film carries you rapidly through a maze of images drawn both in pencil and digitally depicting the questions raised by the poem. What is real and what is artificial? Is
SHORT ART FILMS
SHORT ART FILMS
Our short art films are a hybrid of four components Text - The imagery, pacing and dramatic impact is drawn from poetic text. Visual Arts - Our current films employ still images which are animated by motion graphics. We hope to use film clips and scenes as well as three-dimensional art in coming films. We
Novella: Ray of Lightning -the past requires a miracle
Novella: Ray of Lightning -the past requires a miracle
A helpful, healing resident of a retirement facility in her mid-nineties calls herself Grace. The staff welcomes a new 96-year-old resident, the well-known African American film score composer Dr. Allen DeMark. Grace initiates a conversation with him about the shared memories of their youth. He shows no recognition of her but they both know stories from the past of RayAnne Damping, a young woman made famous for her extraordinary preaching and miraculous healing ministry in the 1930's. The stories materialize in their presence as Ray presses him to remember a certain Eddie Noble, music director of RayAnne's ministry. The unscrupulous publicist Bradford Ranken used him to destroy the ministry, and the love between Eddie and RayAnne. DeMark hides a past too dangerous to reveal but which torments him to this day. Can Grace reach into the past violence and heal the wounds of his youth?
Sci-Fi Novella - Revival: raising the dead in the future.
Sci-Fi Novella - Revival: raising the dead in the future.
Novella - Pulling Back the Earth. Ancients discover Us.
Novella - Pulling Back the Earth. Ancients discover Us.
Your Table of Creation video series on the creative process
Your Table of Creation video series on the creative process
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