Connections: aren’t they what life is about—experiences, moments, depths shared with another? What is life absent meaningful engagement with the souls that surround us? Why are we struck differently by one than another? How do we learn if we do not seek, respond and act in affect to natural draws? Maybe the draw […]
All Posts By: Byron McCoy
Short Story
EPIPHANY
They came upon a clearing, a meadow of open grass on hilltop of ridge above the living shadow of the woods on mountain’s sides. Doves held in the bare winter branches of woods’ edge, gathered to feed on the heads of foxtail winterkilled in the meadow and laying slumped in stalks by the weight […]
Poetry
HEARD GOD LAUGH
When you receive a free book (“I Heard God Laugh,” by Matthew Kelly) in the mail and take it as a sign to scribble… We may not always understand our purpose. Plans may not go as we intend or dream, but there’s more to come, and in time–if blessed–maybe we’ll begin to see a greater […]
Short Story
EXPECTATIONS
“No resolutions or expectations?” he questioned, not in judgment but, from want to continue conversation. “No,” she smiled with an open lightness of spirit. “What about hopes?” he asked. Her smile held. “There are always hopes,” she spoke, “but, those, I leave to the will of the Universe—your God—whatever we choose […]
Lyrics
LOOKING ON LILY
(Thank you Ethan Gouge for your knowledge in botany and guiding me on to the Gray’s Lily of Roan Mountain, TN)
Poetry
RESOLUTION
Pending a few more hours and a day: new year’s resolution; same me…small steps working to be “better”—whatever that is to each of us.
Short Story
A BLESSING
She was a blessing in her own right: a kind soul of gentle spirit that brought a levity to worlds she touched. It was a levity not of pretense but of honest presence. He felt it in himself whenever she was near. Her blue eyes spoke in spirit, and when holding on his […]
Short Story
REVELATION
They departed from darkened world under winter rain that fell light and steady from low clouds that suppressed all light from the heavens. In ascent, only the light of wingtips, and those of artificial world beneath, shone as the plane climbed fast through blackness and small turbulence of storm before rising above and into […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
OUR PART
“There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards Heaven or tilt it towards Hell.”—Jordan B. Peterson There comes a point when we discern the most-wrong way to live is deference—putting off life and denying one’s perceived course […]