In the counter-shadow of dawn’s beginning light, beneath skies gray from spring mourning, water shone as a blanket, even on shallow-slopes where clumped grasses dammed and held it from its run, appearing as snow absent pale glow in season before. Blades of grass shone green up through the standing water, breaking the mirror surface […]
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DAD DAY
We played “Horse” in the driveway and baseball in the backyard. We went to a soccer game in the city, dinner with grandparents, and to the “Movie Gators” (Owen’s words) after. Heading home from the theater, I thanked them, “Thank you for such a beautiful day.” Audrey laughed lightly then answered in her […]
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THE HERON
“Ada wondered that herons could tolerate each other close enough to breed. She had seen a scant number in her life, and those so lonesome as to make the heart sting on their behalf. Everywhere they were seemed far from home.”—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain He read the quote aloud, and when he finished, […]
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QUIET DREAMER
“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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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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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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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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SOUL SHIFT
“You speak of despair,” she spoke, “but today, words are used absent common understandings so that they bear no meaning unless followed on by greater definition. What is despair to you?” He thought, shaping his thought and giving order to the sense, “Despair is when you know the man you should be, are […]
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MOVING ON
I don’t like Hemingway like I used to. I don’t like his absorption in past problems, his superficial love, his false manliness. It is an air that impresses those still searching for self—because it is their story—but there comes a point when one must move on in life and literature. Still, I thought […]