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LISTEN
“…in possibility one can go astray in all possible ways, but essentially two. One form is the wishful, yearning form, the other is the melancholy fantastic—on the one hand hope; on the other, fear or anguished dread.”—Soren Kierkegaard I don’t want to go astray. I don’t want to go too far chasing dreams I […]
WHEN THE WORLD CHANGED
I lived days I lost myself in thought, when discovering me again, I witnessed clouds shift, sun break, and sky show with a new and beautiful light. I don’t know what it meant, if it meant anything at all, but I observed. I witnessed how—in a thought—heavens moved, light shone, and the world illuminated […]
CLARITY
I write in the mornings. I begin when the sky is black and nothing shows. I write, and the thought and sky begin to glow. The sky warms from the horizon up, muted hues of a light yet revealed. When the thought I wish to share completes, dawn breaks and I am blinded and […]
SPOILED
It is after dark before I am home. The house is quiet, and the children are “in bed,” having a sleepover in Audrey’s room. I shower, washing free the dirt from a day in the field, and when I exit the bathroom, a child waits in the kitchen with their mother. He “can’t […]
UNDEFINED
“Well you don’t know much about me. I’ll explain it as best I can…” The song played in the kitchen as dinner wound to a close. They listened to the melody, the harmony, its lyrics, and the song added further calm to an already peaceful room. Listening to their sound, the little boy […]
MOULIN ROUGE
“My gift is my song, and this one is for you… And you can tell everybody that this is your song. It might be quite simple but now that it’s done. I hope you don’t mind. I hope you don’t mind That I put down in words…” Some souls strike you different. The world […]
RIGHT TIME
I don’t know if there is ever a right time to say something. I’ve found that if I wait, hold something back I wished to give, the right time becomes past and words I wished to speak remain unsaid. When sharing, I’ve found words and acts offered unexpected, or unwanted, most often come out […]