They rested together, on cabin porch, facing the western sky as sun neared in communion with crown of rising earth. They gazed on sky transformed, hues of revelation from out of the blue, before colors receded into transfigured after-sky of night. In the changing air, the scent of pines held strong in mountain glade, […]
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MIND, ENFLAMED
She rested in the recess of a shadowed room reading in the soft light and aura-warmth of a mind, enflamed. Outside, sky shone grey over earth’s blanket-white. Through window, she listened to the soft sledge-sound of passing cars, tires through slush, snow in melt on the black, and ambient heat, of asphalt’s face. […]
LISTENING
“There’s days when a little bit of talk with a female is worth any price. I figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk. Listening to women ain’t the fashion in this part of the country. But I expect […]
A PHILOSOPHICAL STANDPOINT
“…what for me has far deeper implications for psychology, what is far more disturbing from a philosophical standpoint, is that on occasion a man can be created by another man, by another himself, by virtue of a fortuitous encounter, and at any moment…What I want to show is the contact a man can have with […]
CONNECTIONS
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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)