All Posts By: Byron McCoy
BEAUTY OF CONTRASTS
“Meanwhile, forgive me but there are other things we must think about: like doing our jobs…showing a bit of ordinary kindness to people, particularly our own families—unkindness to those close to us is such a pitiful th8ing—doing what we can…things which, please forgive me, sometimes seem more important than dwelling on a few middle-aged […]
WHO ELSE?
He wondered if one ever read his stories, found them by their own seeking where he left them all in open sight and access—if ever one cared to search. It didn’t really matter, was just a curiosity, a wondering he would not drive to known answer but wrote away and aired simply to let […]
AND BEYOND
In open air and sky of wilds, they made love in the broken light beneath autumn understory; her body as aspen’s skin—light and fair and bright in wash of sun through canopy of gold; the cool of the air and heat of their hold in stay of bond between; her face above, like sun, […]
BEGIN WITH THE BEAUTY
Beauty is not the end. Beauty is not the aim. Beauty is the means, inspiration, and catalyst to purpose: to create, perpetuate, continue, for another generation more; on and on, into infinity, or at last the chain is broken-when we fail to see the greater purpose and in beauty made as end and aim, the […]