My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.




Saturday, May 3, 2025

An Open Letter to the United States Congress on May 3, 2025

Honorable Members of the United States Congress:

If the Joint Committee has concern regarding the fundamental loyalties of a given leader at this time, its members should express themselves in this circumstance, and their perspectives should be most heavily weighed, in my opinion.

The Constitution makes no provision for these communications, but neither does the Constitution consider a circumstance in which the sovereignty of the United States has been assailed partially from within.

Has a leader ever directed harm of U.S. lands at the wish of a foreign adversary?  Experimentation on the public at the wish of a foreign adversary?  Theft of American IP at the wish of a foreign adversary?  Destruction of American houses of worship at the wish of a foreign adversary?  Undermining of the U.S. military in its promise to defend the long term interests of our nation at the wish of a foreign adversary?

These acts are disqualifying with regard to certain leadership positions, because the resultant damage to the nation is so great if those directives are heeded.

Loyalty to the sovereignty of the United States of America among our nation's leaders cannot be equivocal, wavering, or uncertain.

Our challenges are too great for those weaknesses to persist.

It is not too far a reach to say that the future freedom of mankind depends on the reclaimed sovereignty of the United States.

Our leaders need to be exceptionally clear about their commitments to the nation under these extraordinary circumstances.

Given these realities, it is appropriate for the Joint Committee to offer to the United States Congress its perspectives with regard to any potential compromise of key leaders of the nation.

We need to be working together to demonstrate both nationally and internationally that the United States possesses the leadership and the fortitude to assume the defining role in the future regarding pressing global concerns.

That means that we cannot be divided against ourselves or wavering in our loyalties to the United States' long term interests.

The Joint Committee should communicate any concerns regarding key leaders' support for fully reclaiming the sovereignty of the United States directly to Congress so that the Senate and House can most carefully consider its members' critical role in ensuring that our country manifest its full sovereign capabilities at this time.

Vladimir Putin cannot lay a claim to the United States' National Treasury, the sanctity of American lands, the freedom of Americans to worship as they choose, the safety of America's youth, the ownership of Americans' intellectual property, or control of the United States military command.  

Nor can any foreign leader usurp American sovereignty in the manner that has been attempted in our recent history as a nation.

The Congress is currently playing an urgent and pivotal role in making that clear.

Most sincerely,





Lane MacWilliams

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