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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lament for the trees devastated for a golf course in DC - markarturner.substack.com/p/learning-f...

view from inside a forest with green grass looking through the trees toward a lake below forested hills

MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Being Nodes of Change - Move the universe past this tangle. Short essay and poem. horizongate.org/2026/09/bein... . #astrophysics #BodyUniverse #change #contemplation #Creation #love #poem #prayer #transformation

In deep space the earth is in the foreground and colorful nebulae are in the background. A graph showing profiles of a variety of people praying on earth with lines extending from each person out into space pointing to a distant earth.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Audio Book Just Released! Give Us this Day, a short story dramatized with character voices, sound effects, and music about a small, mountain town under threat when the metropolis down the hill is attacked by terrorists. Preview & Purchase at horizongate.org/giveus

A small town is seen below us in a forested valley with mountains in the background and mailboxes in the foreground. The title superimposed is "Give Us this Day, a short story in audio theater, Narrated by Mark R. Turner and Horizon Gate Players".

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Look at What We Have: a progression to counter Trump/MAGA fear mongering. Creation draws small particles up to become more than we yet know. See horizongate.org/2026/08/look...

A dynamic arrangement of colorful abstract shapes set against a textured background. The bold use of colors and intersecting forms creates a lively visual rhythm. The large shapes have come from the small ones down in the corner. The way Creation happens, we small particles down in the corner, are becoming more than what we know yet.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Autumn Communion," 16.7"x13.3", digitally hand painted by Mark R. Turner - Contemplate relieving the heat and degradation by voting MAGA out in November. Prints at horizongate.org/visual-arts

Leaves and tree trunks reveal the dynamic actions of the fall with swirling lines and active shapes changing color in the light and shadow of the cooling winds.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hope is born as we are bonded together in the mixer of resistance. More at horizongate.org/2026/07/maki... . #empire #endurance #Exodus #faith #freedom #democracy #oppression #spirituality

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Show business techniques have long been employed to manipulate people in the bubble of ideology, religion, or cultural bias. But people can still look away from the screen, see real conditions, and break out of the bubble of the Trump/MAGA cult. More at horizongate.org/brkg

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

How have we survived and how will we come out of this nightmare? Ten Years Navigating: essays, poems, and pictures to aid renewal - Vol. 1, 2016-2020 is now available at horizongate.org/TenYrs1. Get notified of eBook & print for each volume at horizongate.org/books . #MAGAcult #resistance #renewal

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This unattractive scene offers hope by the alternative spirit in the inner person walking through the circumstances. More in the blog. horizongate.org/2026/04/our-... . #inspired #TrueSelf #repression #selfawareness #BrianMcLaren #AlexisWright #sovereigntyofmind #awakening #resilience

In a dynamic drawing with sketchy lines a person full of yellow and white is walking through a dark scene of violence, explosions, spear-like points, missiles and bombs. In the background is a city skyline under a yellow sky with fumes rising and looking attacked. A large mushroom cloud is rising from an explosion. The person seems nearly stepping into something with points arrayed like a bear trap.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Listing evils proves Good is still alive. Let the Good take action. A sample list of wrongs and responses. horizongate.org/reslnc . #commongood #education #faith #fear #government #ignorance #justice #military #nonviolence #politicians #poverty #resilience #righteousness #selfcentered #Truth

a colorful, sketchy abstract looking like a multi-colored tree growing out of a dark purple ground and pushing up into the blue toward the white light.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If Christmas happened, why is evil tearing things up now? Film: the Wise Men in a time of tyranny like today. horizongate.org/watch . #magi #epiphany #motiongraphics #drawing #animation #originalmusic #Jesus #Mary #Joseph #nativity #worldturmoil #genocide #stars #milkyway #light #darkness #poetry

An old, royal man rages through a shadowy, curtained room followed by bright, chaotic lines like trails from sparks in green, yellow and red

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

books, art and media are thoughtful gifts for your friends, loved ones, and yourself. horizongate.org/2025/12/the-... . #art #artshops #books #Christmas #crafts #films #gifts #poetry #stories

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

No Kings Day with a good attitude To be called upon to be so is the supreme affirmation of our humanity and confidence that we have the capacity to carry it out, if we so choose and commit. We know what is good and what is not . #attitude #humanity #Love #respect #arrogance #relationships #bullying

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Motion graphics over a digital painting with poem reading and music growing out of my life amid the mounting evils of the early twenty-first century. My poem struggles with the conditions but describes my response rising above them like light in the darkness. youtu.be/ZLjLcIbalU8

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"The Way Opening" by MarkRTurner, October 11, 2025

YouTube video by Mark Turner

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It is not impossible, but it requires choices by each of us. "Inklings of Utopia" at horizongate.org/2025/09/inkl... . #behavior #choices #destruction #extinction #future #global #goodness #hope #love #mystery #newcreation #noosphere #PierreTeilharddeChardin #relational #violence

"Inklings Noosphere", 38.25"x48", digital painting, Mark R. Turner. A colorful abstract image featuring swirling geometric patterns and shapes. Bright colors and bold lines create a sense of movement through space and time with energy creating the cosmos.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

What comes first to deal with our fascist mess? horizongate.org/2025/08/what... . #Values #Faith #Doubt #Wonder #Awe #universe #Mystery #lightyears #galaxies #fascist #fascism

A tightly integrated collection of organic shapes with a wide array of colors seems to float in dark, nebulous space like an asteroid.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Love moves us to repent and heal the damage done.

The phrase "Love Calls to Impeach and Remove" is superimposed upon a background of abstract shapes that look like roots.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We think we possess but are mostly unaware of being possessed. Exorcism is needed all around, especially of demon mongers in power. horizongate.org/2025/06/what... . #demons #spirituallife #denial #fear #greed #hoarding #generosity #hate #Love #lying #Truth #freedom #psyche #believe #exorcise

a prosperous, young, Caucasion man and woman pose in front of their two expensive cars and large house, unaware that they are bound by many chains and that fragments of them are floating around the premises

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A soliloquy of one in power warning us of their plight 1st 2 Stanzas: That boast of confidence In my own genius Indicates a measure Of self-delusion and Dressed up incompetence. Here am I immersed in My misconception of Solo independence Mistaken for freedom. more: horizongate.org/2025/05/excl...

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

"Learning from the Trees" - a poetic contemplation on our resilience "under the radar" www.patreon.com/posts/poem-l... . #creation #primordial #comrades #helping #inclusive #violence #deforestation #recovery #roots #nighttime #dream #nightmare #caregiver #conflict #destruction #healing #light

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In the night awakened Troubled sights and sounds On your heart weighing; Your turn in the prayer watch Called by the Spirit In the Company Believing what cannot Be circumscribed or sold And not to worry; Your turn to move The minute increment In humanity’s growth, horizongate.org/IntheNight

Here is an object of swirling shapes growing out of a primordial crater under a dawn sky with energetic foreshadows of forms to come. It is titled Evolving Hope, by Mark R. Turner. What does hope look like? We can only draw symbols as we keep growing toward a Goodness beyond what oppressors try to sell us.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

My Poetry Page is live. Take a break from the stream of trouble on your screen. horizongate.org/poetry . #poems #poetry #poet #contemplative #retreat #peace #thoughtfulness #meditation

colorful, abstract calligraphy flowing across the pale background seeking form and shape

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Contemplative film of music and nature photography to help us remember our True Selves. Ash Wednesday begins the good season of introspection and realignment. youtu.be/5fTWa8xNfug . #ashwednesday #nature #stressrelief #retreat #lent #ashes #connection #contemplation #meditation #spiritual

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Ash Wednesday Contemplative

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The evils we are witnessing unwittingly give us the grace of blatantly showcasing their wrongness Seeing evil clearly should motivate us to walk away from it. horizongate.org/2025/03/step... . #animalistic #believing #capitalistic #evolution #incarnation #materialist #nationalistic #newcreation

Six colorful planets float against a backdrop of a starry galaxy. A golden, cosmic net connects them all telling us to know the security of Grace which holds all wherever each member goes in the universe. The vibrant hues of blue, red, orange, green, yellow, and purple on the planets contrast strikingly with dark space and the glowing galaxy.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Creation has sculpted this scenery for eons. Now we as members of creation contribute to or detract from the process growing our beauty. See blog "Building the Good is Sustainable" horizongate.org/bldngthegood . #creation #creationprocess #sustainableresistance #resistance #spirituality #opposition

photo of Colorado erosion-sculpted rocks overlooking a valley of reddish cliffs with sparse vegetation and, in the far distance, rugged blue mountains under a dusky sky

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Changing your mind for the better advances the common good globally. Download your copy of this poem at horizongate.org/poemgrphc . #contemplation #growth #thought #growingup #personaldevelopment #meditation #lifechanges #commongood

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Born in the spontaneity of theater make these play like “movies” in your mind. Journeys of humor and pathos in the city, forest, small town and on the farm. Tales to Cultivate the Soul: 11 alternative stories bit.ly/Tales2Culti . #stories #ebook #comedy #satire #contemplative #drama #goodreads

Book cover showing a vast cultivated plain partly planted reaching all the way to the horizon. Title is Tales to Cultivate the Soul: 11 alternative stories. Author is Mark R. Turner.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

No matter what any regime perpetrates, I will still sprout. This blog from 2 years ago is still valid. horizongate.org/2023/01/all-.... . #surviving #liferesilience #resistance #distopian #overcoming #resilience

a tree stump in dry dirt is sprouting a single twig with green leaves in front of the ruins of a building with blue sky - composition by Mark R. Turner

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Stephen Powers @stephenpowersphoto.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Another real highlight from last year. It was a bit of a scramble down the river bank but we were rewarded with something really beautiful. #landscape #photography #nikon #peakdistrict

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Let the profound lessons of Christmas echo into the new year with this little volume of short stories, poems, essays, and drawings. The themes we celebrate in the season are bedrock for life always. Get it at horizongate.org/Treats More books at horizongate.org/books #stories #poems #drawings #books

A book cover showing a gift bursting open with beams of light from inside. The title is Treats & Retreats for Christmas: stories, poems, essays & drawings. The author is Mark R. Turner.

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Unknown Writings" This asemic writing recalls the billions of people who have expressed their hearts but have not been attended to; millennia of writings, images, talking, music, dancing, cooking, ... all unknown. Humans, made to express, keep being humans … blog at horizongate.org/2024/09/the-...

abstract design using hieroglyhic writing in subtle colors and bold black shapes by Mark R. Turner

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MarkarTurner @markrturner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"Elements Forming" Contemplating the nebulae of deep space I remember earth and all of us came from the eons of compression and mixing all the elements needed to give us the capacity of thinking about it. Prints for walls, home decor, cases, bags, apparel and accessories at horizongate.org/elements

abstract painting inspired by deep space nebula - artist Mark R. Turner

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