Welcome to the online home of Darrke Thoughts.
What You Can Find Here:
- Darrke Humor about the Irony of Life
- Thoughts about Justice
- Thoughts about Sustainability
- Thoughts about Environmentalism
- Thoughts about Education
- Thoughts about Religion
- Thoughts about Spirituality
- Thoughts about Psychology
- Thoughts about Current Events
- Thoughts about Politics
- Thoughts about Economics
- … and any other Darrke Thoughts I happen to think
Why Darrke Thoughts?
People always seem to want to know how I got my name. I picked the name DarrkeThoughts when I was blogging on another blogging network several years ago. I like it. It still feels “right”. Sometimes it feels more right than my given name. Like the real me… the inner me.
“But why dark? Why not light? You should be Light Thoughts.”
I have to laugh, as there have been many people who seem to feel a need to lighten me up. (I have a lighter side, and another account here that those who find me too dark might like better… feel free to go search for lighter thoughts if you like.)
I saw someone using “Darrke” as an alternate spelling and fell in love with it. And besides:
Some people find my humor a little “dark”…
I was going through some dark times in my life then…
I felt I had things I wanted to share that were not entirely politically correct or socially acceptable. I still had a strong need to share and the feeling that there were people out there that could benefit by knowing they weren’t the only one to have these dark thoughts.
I wanted them to know they were not alone.
I wanted to know that I was not alone.
I also was playing on the idea that dark is the opposite of light as heavy is also the opposite of light. So it was a pen name from which I could write my heavy thoughts as well as my dark ones.
I like to read, think, and write about politics, especially social issues, religion and spirituality, cultures and traditions of other countries, languages, and alternative health. I’d like to make the world a better place. If I found Aladdin’s lamp my first wish would be for world peace, and then for the means to feed and clothe all the world’s children.
I suppose my thoughts are dark because I see that the world is not perfect. And like someone in AA, I believe the first step to fixing it is to admit we have a problem.
No, Really, Who is Darrke Thoughts?
Okay, if you really must know … my secret identity, the me that the rest of the world sees. You can find me here.
