Annie sat by open window reading as wind of autumn air filled and changed spirit in room. Cool breath of the wind struck over face, fluttering curtains, hair and book page edges as her body warmed beneath sweater and patterned poncho frock. Between turnings of book’s pages, she observed sky’s change across the […]
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SPIRITUAL REALITIES
I received an angel-message today. I was struggling with something in spirit. I was weak, and mind dwelled somewhere that it shouldn’t. Alone, I was burdened and ready to concede to affecting lesser state of spirit. I was committed to follow where I knew I should not go. Then, just as I was […]
Short Story
LOVER’S LOT
They created life of shared fruitfulness, taking joy in small toils that came in working earth; of suntanned skin and dirt-stained hands adorned in seeing bounties rise; tending with hands their small lotted place; ending days with the sun, in calming tiredness that is reward for expended effort and time well used. After sun departed, […]
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OPEN BOOK
“Our…relationship(s are) the inner sanctum of our emotional lives. (They are) our first source of emotional support and our primary opportunity to develop and experience a deep level of intimacy. For most of us, our…relationship(s) will be the one chance we have in this lifetime to truly know a person, and in turn, to […]
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HORIZONS
“The same truth is evident among all people, at all times, and in all situations: the happiest people are those who cherish the mystery of relationships.”—Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy “What do you think of boundaries?” “I don’t,” she answered with smile. “If meant to reach, they will be found. […]
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THOUGHT FROM A PASSAGE
“Relationships are not to be understood and fixed and solved; they…are mysteries to be enjoyed. The best participants in the mystery we call relationship seem to be the people who don’t need to understand everything, the ones who aren’t out to prove anything, those humble enough to accept when they are wrong and […]
SONG
OVERTIME
Played around and found some sounds today, went back to some old lyrics and played around to fit them to a sound; very rough, but still a working start! Battered and bruised, she helped me up when I couldn’t help myself. Broken and scarred, she helped me rise when I had nobody else. Wasn’t the […]
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TREE OF LIFE
“What is Magic to you,” he asked as they walked together in autumn eve through glade of fallen spirits. “Where does Universe sign? How does God speak, to you?” A wind caught and its touch through trees stripped and scattered further cast of colored leaves weakened in autumn’s hold scattering in wind and […]
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A BETTER FRIEND
“How do I be a better friend?” he asked in vulnerability and admission of faults and limitation to discernment. “How do I learn to offer what another wishes instead of proceeding in irreverence?” His friend listened, processing question before providing answer. “Listen,” the friend replied. “Think on what another says and shares […]
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AFTER-DROUGHT
For two days, ran fell beneath grey that cast as blanket, complete, across the sky. Cracks of the dry, split earth smoothed, and the shadow of the clouds and fall of the rain restored depth of hopeful hues to landscape of barren brown and paling green. By strain, the land was strengthened in […]