It was a unique place of commonness and culture, poverty and wealth; wealth wrought of a simple plan, by a simple man, who after gaining unfathomable paper money never left the simplicity and metaphysical truth of simple home and simple means. As is the way of most great wealths, it was the heirs […]
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BALANCING ACT
Night sets. It’s been a good day, but I am glad to be home: to slow and still and rest and find a little quiet if not silence (traffic still runs; it carries in the air, and I listen to the scratch of my son with a lighter trying to get the flame […]
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SEVENTH DOORWAY
Why is it the coldest days so often bear the brightest skies? He wondered in stare on the morning brilliance. Golden sun in cast-reflect off snow-white world crusted in surface melt of day before smoothed and sheened to unblemished face in freeze and fall of night. Sun returned, snow and world mirrored double-radiant. […]
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FRIEND IN FLIGHT
Out of nowhere—silence and sky—it appeared in landing by her side. Through windowed divide, close and near, she stared at the owl in rest. She looked into its eyes. Owl stared back and into hers. In the silence, they communed as certain spirits can and do—discovered magic of a way. What was […]
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LIGHTNESS
“What you produce is not always sacred…What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life. The more lightly you can pass the time, the brighter your existence becomes.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, Big […]
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MY BEATRICE
“Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path… How I entered there I cannot say, I had become so sleepy at the moment when I first strayed, leaving the path of truth…” —Dante, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto […]