You are made of the stuff of the stars, my dear; Of the stuff of eternity. You are born of the ages
Category: Writing
Transcendent
Once again A hundred yards into the ocean; How many times Have I found myself here? Found myself. That is, after all, what happens; Difficult, impossible, Then an eagle soaring, New-grown wings. As many times as I say otherwise I have not yet found My limits. This ocean, too, I will transcend; Either I will…
Looking For A Fix
Look, I wasn’t going to write anything about Josh Duggar, but I saw yet another article this morning that triggered a train of thought, and so even though this article isn’t about him per se it sort of is. Kind of. Not really. It’s more about people in general who get stuck looking for a…
Executor
I pulled the plug. It may as well have been a trigger, Says my heart; I closed the book myself, And cannot mourn. Some loss is irrevocable; Powerless, you cannot stop The truck, the bullet, Turn back time. Denial, anger, bargaining, Railing at life and death, Waves of grief, up and down, Washing. But some…
The Red Velvet Ghost, Part 2
Missed Part 1? Read it here. Larietta was a member of the large, old family, though neither she nor any other could have told you how. She grew up largely by her own devices, shuffled between convents and basement kitchens and the streets. When she blossomed into womanhood her fortunes turned, for a blacksmith’s apprentice…
Nightmare Skies
I have lived my worst nightmare more than once. It’s just as bad as it sounds, and not. Anticipation holds more fear; fear holds more pain, and pain more grief, than the nightmares themselves. Even nightmare skies hold stars.
Ten Things Millennials Understand
In the history of maligned generations, mine may be the most severely, relentlessly and unfairly maligned. It’s true that we move back in with our parents and that we don’t go to church, but it’s not all bad. Here are some things we Millennials get right. I’m not saying no previous generations understood these things……
Screw the Patriarchy
And How Women have been Doing It for Millennia Just to be quite clear up front, I’m definitely a feminist. I think it’s ridiculous that women earn 70 cents to a man’s dollar and that in spite of making up half the country’s population we comprise only 17% of Congress. Women’s behavior and clothing is…
The Red Velvet Ghost
Once, long and far in the past, there was a very old and very large home that belonged to an even older and larger family. No one kept the home anymore; the last resident was only a fuzzy-edged memory, and he had been too lazy or too cowardly to leave it to any of his…
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