“…the Second Order is the essential woman’s business, of keeping the fire of love alight upon the hearth…The deepest wells of mysticism are there hidden, and must always be hidden, from the outer world.”—Evelyn Underhill, The Essentials of Mysticism _____ In sustain and blow of the changing wind, first autumn frost arrived as […]
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Journal Pages
QUEEN OF THE COURT
Today, my daughter plays her last game for her middle school volleyball team. I will be missing. Dividing and conquering, I will be getting our son to his football game. Still, my daughter is on my mind. I thought of her yesterday, too, in full day of drilling wheat. I remembered her as […]
Short Story
VISION-DAZZLE
She’d never seen a sun as that. He’d never seen her gaze such way, adoration-fix upon the seeing: flame surround and hold of light, like shavings of the sun or phosphoric firework without settle, fall, or diminish of brilliance. She fixed to the sun beyond wind dance of the paled […]
Short Story
UNSHAKEN
“Do you ever have days when visions won’t shake?” he asked. She listened empathetic and smiling, knowing well the way. “I might,” she answered studying and reading his eyes. “What are they painting to you now?” she asked. He was silent, and she felt […]
Short Story
YELLOW VISIONS
“Desire is everything in Nature; does everything. Heaven is Nature filled with divine Life attracted by Desire.”—Bernard Holland (in introduction to Dialogues on the Supersensual Life, by Jacob Boehme _____ “I don’t want to go back,” he spoke. Neither did she. They sat on porch of the oaken home at evening […]
Short Story
WARM-FREEZE
“…with age her character deepened and grew richer. She used her talent to help other souls, and it helped creased. She studied, too, and found language of great subtlety and beauty in which to express her vision of truth.”—Evelyn Underhill, The Essentials of Mysticism _____ From frost beginning, sun rose and […]