Question posed: to most of us, the “me” and our “mind” are indistinguishable. George Foreman tells us in plain English, “Control your thoughts”. Since our thoughts happen in our “mind”, when we control our thoughts, we are controlling our “mind”. We are observing our own mind, and guiding what it does.
When I am controlling my thoughts, “me” is definitely different from my “mind”.
So, what is my mind?
Joe C. Smolen, AKA L.W. Smolen is an Oregon Coast writer of insufficiently exaggerated notoriety. Never having been arrested, he lives with his wife Sherrie and the ghost of their black, Standard Poodle Rico Suave in a really pretty good, Prairie Style house they built themselves. Since the Literary Magazine Fleas on the Dog of Kitchener, Ontario has permanently stopped accepting submissions, in order to read L.W. Smolen’s 2021 short fiction, A Real Guy, you are referred to joecsmolen.com. Some of L.W’s other, subsequent short fictions are archived at Olive Tree Review, Ginosko, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Wilderness House and etc. Kirkus reviews once interpreted his work favorably.
