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Editor's Note: Scott Tinley is a 7th generation Californian, an accomplished teacher, author and athlete. He teaches sport humanity courses in the California State University system, undergraduate English students, and junior lifeguards. He is the author of five books of non-fiction, including Racing the Sunset, a personal and in-depth tome on athlete retirement. Scott is also a former paramedic, two-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion and holds several post-graduate degrees. Of Tinley's latest book, Things to Be Survived: Tales of Resolution and Resurrection, Chris Carter, writer, creator and producer of the X-Files, writes: "Scott Tinley lives in his own kind of demon-haunted world. He writes with a hard-earned wisdom about the limits of physical confrontation and the interior dimensions of the psychic battlefield. These stories are visitations of a sort, from the ghosts of enemies within and without." Armen Keteyian, Chief Investigative Correspondent, CBS News and HOFMAG.com executive editor comments: "ST writes like he raced – passionately, purposefully, driven by an intelligent soulfullness, a depth of understanding of tragedy rarely found these days. Pull up a chair and treasure this trip inside the heart - and head -- of a chronicler of the human condition." The following three excerpts appear with permission by the publisher Habitus Books. From the Preface:
"There is such joy in pathos because it reminds us all that we are humans regardless. My characters taught me the pleasure in allowing some sadness in your life, of embracing the pain, letting it inform you and then pass right through. And after awhile, a funny thing happens—we are able to see ourselves in all the craziness that surrounds us, all that wonderfully edible mayhem, living and breathing, dying and laughing, not in the shadows but in every sunrise and every sunset, howling at the high noon moon. Survivors get to such the marrow, to know that as they die they will not discover that they had not lived."  Scott Tinley is a 7th generation Californian, an accomplished teacher, author and athlete. From: In Search of the Last Hippy
To think about resistance is to think about acceptance. Not for sale or selling out. Everything is true and nothing is true. And quantum physics never did get you that four-bedroom, three-bath in the burbs. War is hell but heaven has left earth, left the building with Elvis. What we have now is an Ipod zeitgeist, Rollerball come true, Vacuum Ville. Everything is gone but the uncertainty of some goodness. Free love replaced with free downloads, nothing but rising temps and falling forests, endangered species replaced by pocket-pets. I don't want to live in an air-conditioned world and I'll never learn to speak Chinese. I'd gone to a friend's funeral but a lot more had passed. And these kids, the students of Bezerkley, don't they care? Okay, previous generations didn't leave things in such great shape. But who ever really cleans a hotel room? I ain't buying that "I'm only a dot in a dot.com world" shit. It's just work, baby…just connecting the political with the personal, as someone said. Walking back up the avenue, I was compelled to revolt at the repulsion, disgusted that I was still unable to distinguish the peace agents from the sales agent, unable to speak out against the slick genocide with a Jeffersonian air and plane old Grace. The best I could do was to jaywalk into a Starbucks and take a piss without buying anything at all. I miss the obvious ambiguity of the war. Someday I'll go there on vacation for the first time. Yeah, me and the ghost of Hanoi Jane. Stepping over the land minds of our past.
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