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# Meridian Verso

A virtual writing portfolio

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://meridianverso.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Archive](https://meridianverso.net/blog/archive/) - Archive of previous blog entries SamplesRick Saldana Meridian Verso
- [Dr. Pepper Died for Your Sins](https://meridianverso.net/dr-pepper-died-for-your-sins/) - So that case of Dr. Pepper is what, $6? What the market is telling us is that highest holiest symbol, the cross, is somehow equivalent to $6 of carbonated beverage.
- [Pills and Perspectives ep. 2](https://meridianverso.net/pills-and-perspectives-ep-2/) - Welcome back, listeners. I am your host, Ian Celibate and this is Pills and Perspectives where we discuss the distant and strange consciousness and day-to-day motions of their ideological position. Today I am joined by my colleague and failed situationship, Thomas Waters.
- [Pills and Perspectives ep. 1: Gaycels](https://meridianverso.net/pp-1/) - Yes, we've all been emo cucked, as we, in our atomized and isolated culture, lament and languish over our failures to connect to the point that we have to produce spectacular images in order to vicariously experience intimacy. Mmm.
- ["Technology will set us free!" and other hilarious jokes](https://meridianverso.net/technology-will-set-us-free/) - If the feverish acceleration and subsequent stagnation of cultural feedback loops in the 2000s-2010s taught us anything, it's that there are no absolute solutions, simply sites of resistences. Nonetheless those resistences involve fostering mixed-use developments, enhancing community engagement, and implementing an ethical and philosophical position.
- [Is Our Lady Here?](https://meridianverso.net/is-our-lady-here/) - I am mezclado, what used to be called mestizo. I am a product of colonialism and this is the history I inherited. With that said, the few bits of Tonantzin Coatlicue and her children that have been able to survive, by passing the stories down through the generation or receiving miracles, I am glad for she is still with us.
- [Do Rednecks Wear White on Labor Day?](https://meridianverso.net/do-rednecks-wear-white-on-labor-day/) - Then I started thinking about the color red. Red; red like the blood on the street or the red on their necks, the soot on their denim and the dust in their eyes. Red, red, red.
- [Why do the dead keep dying?](https://meridianverso.net/why-do-the-dead-keep-dying/) - Death is abstracted, turned into graphs and metrics of government efficacy, and we are prescribed a plethora of ways of avoid it, and in exchange for mere survival. We do not live for the pursuits of life, rather we live to avoid death and those in death.
- [In Defense of Lost Causes](https://meridianverso.net/in-defense-of-lost-causes/) - In reflecting on the monumental endeavor that was OccupyICE SATX, it's clear that while the occupation had its shortcomings, it also served as a beacon of hope and a testament to the power of grassroots activism. Despite the challenges faced, including ideological differences, security concerns, and logistical issues, the occupation managed to achieve significant successes and valuable lessons.
- [Doom, Doom, and More Doom Loops](https://meridianverso.net/doom-doom-and-more-doom-loops/) - Doom is so all pervasive that in 2018, the figure of the Doomer acted as a virtual screen for us to project our despair onto and which was, in turn, reflected back onto us, transmutating us into Doomers with no end in sight.
- [Tomas In The City of Ghosts and Monsters](https://meridianverso.net/tomas-in-the-city-of-ghosts-and-monsters/) - In my childhood, the sky overflowed with stars. I'd gaze up, envisioning constellations like the big dipper sharing from the milky way. Now, the stars have vanished, replaced by clouds which blot out the moonlight. Instead, parasites scour the wasteland-sky carrying kilos of Amazon packages and Funko Pops. During especially dark nights of the soul, I will hallucinate two planes as the eyes of a great dragon, patiently waiting.

## Pages

- [A Virtual Writing Portfolio](https://meridianverso.net/) - A virtual writing portfolio by Rick Saldaña creator of Meridian Verso
- [Visual Writing](https://meridianverso.net/visual/) - Visual Writing🜄 Step by Step 🜄 Process Map 🜄 Marketing Samples of visual guides, HUD process maps, marketing materials, and Project Cherish by Team Vogue. Click on the titles view the full guide or document Samples About Step by Step Guide: Assigning, Reviewing, Approving, and Submitting Requisitions to DHQ Step by Step May 2026Step by Rick Saldana Meridian Verso
- [About](https://meridianverso.net/about/) - Meridian Verso | 🜄 Experience 🜄 Awards 🜄 Education 🜄 Testimonials 🜄 Student Orgs 🜄 Biography View professional history, associations, awards, and more.
- [Resume](https://meridianverso.net/resume/) - Résumé As of November 11th, 2025 Rick Saldana Meridian Verso
- [Texas Divisional HQ Grants & Contracts Automated Budget User Guide](https://meridianverso.net/checklist/) - Texas Divisional HQ Grants & Contracts Automated Budget User Guide ✨Texas Divisional HQ Grants & Contracts Automated Budget User Guide How your budget form works - a visual guide to understanding the automatic calculations User Input System Checks Automatic Calculation Decision Point Box Mode Status Indicator Saved Data Resets Data 📍 How It Starts You Rick Saldana Meridian Verso
- [Grant Writing](https://meridianverso.net/grant/) - Grant Writing🜄 Assessment🜄 Proposal🜄 Capstone Samples of previously submitted proposals to funders of varying amounts and types of support; | Meridian Verso
- [Other Writing](https://meridianverso.net/other/) - Fiction 🜄 Poetry 🜄 Review 🜄 Periodicals by Rick Saldaña Other Writing🜄 Creative 🜄 Review 🜄 Periodical Samples of short stories, poetry, book reviews, and newspaper articles. Click on the titles to view either the online publication or the pre-print .pdf file. Samples About "Sweat and Blood" Creative February 2019A short piece of horror fiction appearing in the quarterly magazine Dark Moon Digest #34 published
- [Cookie Policy](https://meridianverso.net/cookie-policy/) - Cookie Policy This cookie policy (“Policy”) describes what cookies are and how they’re being used by the meridianverso.net website (“Website” or “Service”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”). This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and this Website operator (“Operator”, “we”, “us” or “our”). If Administrator Saldana Meridian Verso
- [Contact](https://meridianverso.net/contact/) - Rick Saldana Meridian Verso
- [Academic Writing](https://meridianverso.net/academic/) - Academic Writing Rick Saldaña | Meridian Verso
- [Sitemap](https://meridianverso.net/blog/sitemap/) - Sitemap | Meridian Verso A virtual writing portfolio
- [Privacy Policy](https://meridianverso.net/privacy-policy/) - Privacy policy for Meridian Verso
- [Blog](https://meridianverso.net/blog/) - Rick Saldana Meridian Verso Welcome toMeridian RectoHere you will find a collection of writing penned by the Verso and Recto of this portfolio. Scroll meet the Verso and Recto as Rick is joined by fellow grant writer Tomas Águas Meet the Writers Rick SaldañaThe Verso Creator and writer of Meridian Verso... Tomas ÁguasThe Recto Designer and writer of Meridian

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## Categories

- [Blog](https://meridianverso.net/category/verso/blog/) - Writing is ritual
- [Labor History](https://meridianverso.net/category/recto/labor-history/)
- [Family](https://meridianverso.net/category/recto/family/)
- [Death](https://meridianverso.net/category/recto/death/)
- [Verso](https://meridianverso.net/category/verso/) - Posts primarily concerned with occultism, philosophy, religion, and/or theology
- [Recto](https://meridianverso.net/category/recto/) - Posts primarily concerned with politics, history, culture, and/or physical death
- [Culture](https://meridianverso.net/category/culture/)
- [Nostalgia](https://meridianverso.net/category/nostalgia/)
- [Philosophy](https://meridianverso.net/category/philosophy/)
- [Technology](https://meridianverso.net/category/technology/)
- [Activism](https://meridianverso.net/category/activism/)
- [Pills and Perspectives](https://meridianverso.net/category/pills-and-perspectives/)
- [Religion](https://meridianverso.net/category/religion/)

## Tags

- [rednecks](https://meridianverso.net/tag/rednecks/)
- [labor movement](https://meridianverso.net/tag/labor-movement/)
- [activism](https://meridianverso.net/tag/activism/)
- [working class](https://meridianverso.net/tag/working-class/)
- [Dead](https://meridianverso.net/tag/dead/)
- [keep](https://meridianverso.net/tag/keep/)
- [dying](https://meridianverso.net/tag/dying/)
- [Guadalupe](https://meridianverso.net/tag/guadalupe/)
- [Religion](https://meridianverso.net/tag/religion/)
- [Tonantzin](https://meridianverso.net/tag/tonantzin/)
- [Coatlicue](https://meridianverso.net/tag/coatlicue/)
- [Coatlaxopeuh](https://meridianverso.net/tag/coatlaxopeuh/)
- [History](https://meridianverso.net/tag/history/)
- [new](https://meridianverso.net/tag/new/)
- [author](https://meridianverso.net/tag/author/)
- [introduction](https://meridianverso.net/tag/introduction/)
- [Childhood](https://meridianverso.net/tag/childhood/)
- [Nostalgia](https://meridianverso.net/tag/nostalgia/)
- [Ai](https://meridianverso.net/tag/ai/)
- [Culture](https://meridianverso.net/tag/culture/)
- [Doomer](https://meridianverso.net/tag/doomer/)
- [Doomscroll](https://meridianverso.net/tag/doomscroll/)
- [Nick land](https://meridianverso.net/tag/nick-land/)
- [Nonprofits](https://meridianverso.net/tag/nonprofits/)
- [Technology](https://meridianverso.net/tag/technology/)
- [Urban decay](https://meridianverso.net/tag/urban-decay/)
- [abolishice](https://meridianverso.net/tag/abolishice/)
- [occupyice](https://meridianverso.net/tag/occupyice/)
- [protest](https://meridianverso.net/tag/protest/)
- [SATX](https://meridianverso.net/tag/satx/)
- [gay community](https://meridianverso.net/tag/gay-community/)
- [gay guys](https://meridianverso.net/tag/gay-guys/)
- [gaycels](https://meridianverso.net/tag/gaycels/)
- [incels](https://meridianverso.net/tag/incels/)
- [LGBT](https://meridianverso.net/tag/lgbt/)
- [ugh](https://meridianverso.net/tag/ugh/)
- [volcels](https://meridianverso.net/tag/volcels/)
- [Satire](https://meridianverso.net/tag/satire/)
- [Exes](https://meridianverso.net/tag/exes/)
- [Loneliness](https://meridianverso.net/tag/loneliness/)
- [Market](https://meridianverso.net/tag/market/)
- [Economics](https://meridianverso.net/tag/economics/)
- [Dr. Pepper](https://meridianverso.net/tag/dr-pepper/)
- [Did Jesus die for this?](https://meridianverso.net/tag/did-jesus-die-for-this/)