“Stay steadfast and patient. You are moving towards your vision even if you can’t see it yet. All is working in your favor. Everything is slowly but surely coming together. All is well.”—Lukas Notes, September 15, 2020 “Don’t spend too much time explaining yourself,” spoke the old man to the young. “If people can’t […]
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YOUTHFUL HEART
Yesterday, our youngest son had a rough day at school, and my wife and I are to blame. It was his second day of preschool. He is five, a July birthday, and one of the oldest in his class. Day one, he was excited to return. He was excited to see his friends […]
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FIVE-YEAR OLD IN CHURCH
“You can’t let him wrestle you at church!” she scolded quietly as they walked out of mass, her voice low so as only one could hear. “I’m pretty sure he was just praying with me,” the father answered. “He was getting a solid grip.” “I could hear you choking!” “Was I? […]
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HERETIC
“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it…they care even more, and desire us to care even more, about their startling and […]
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE
There is no such thing as eternal sunshine. Light without rest is malaise becoming maddening insanity. You need the rest. You need the night. You need the dark. To reach a new day, one must first pass through night. We must be in darkness for new light to show. We must be in […]
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OLD HABITS
It was just who he was. Bryce’s personality was the kind that liked to joke. He joked with a humor that slipped small denigrations with smiles, sold as humor for a laughs equally intended to cut whom they were spoken towards. It was just who he was, and so long as you understood, there […]
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FAIRYTALES
“Why do you write so much as happiness? Do you believe words are harmless, that they won’t have consequences? People will laugh at you in time.” “I believe words shape thoughts. I believe thoughts shape worlds. I am writing the world I want to see. Why would I want to write it ugly?” […]
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MAGIC MOMENT
“…no single day is the same as any other and…each morning brings its own special miracle, it’s magic moment in which ancient universes are destroyed and new stars are created.”—Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Magic lived—the coalescing of force and destiny. Her eyes shone with specks of gold […]
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TWELVE-YEAR OLD SELF
I miss that, the innocence of attraction when you began to notice and be drawn, not with lust but to beauty in form and soul, and the romanticism of a youthful heart in growth. I miss that innocence. I miss that magic. I held onto that ideal and wonder for a long time, […]
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BEARING WITNESS
The sun fell into line of sight with their eyes, its low-angle light pure gold, coloring the canvas of the world the same in sky and off the undulant skin of the sea before setting away and the last of its colors filtered into calmer reds, oranges, and violets overhead that ceded into stars. […]