“Ocean Dawn”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Skylar stepped faster now, pulled strongly forward by the ocean’s magnetism. A few more strides brought him to the final path stone. His shoes sank into soft sand. A great hush enveloped the world as it prepared to celebrate a sacred mystery. The ocean stretched out in a rippled, plumbeous sheet […]
Continue reading“Pointillism”
Excerpt from Remembering Eternity”: “As he had, often throughout his life, Skylar noticed the shimmering of the minute, silvery-white points of light or energy (he never knew exactly what they were) that filled the atmosphere all around him. There were thousands, millions, no doubt billions of these dancing particles. He could only ever see them […]
Continue reading“Ilona”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Ilona was a poet and a living flame. She was thin and tall with straight, long rosewood hair that fell to the base of her spine like the mane of a fine thoroughbred. No doubt she was pretty, but Ilona’s physical features were nearly irrelevant to an accurate description of the […]
Continue reading“Love As Evolution”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Love as Evolution”: “Despite the ego’s fortress-like construction of this grand mirage or delusion, it is hardly impregnable to Reality. Saints see the hallucination as the flimsiest of gauze overlays, unable to obscure glorious Being. Artists, dreamers, seekers, and devotees catch glimpses of the Absolute behind the delusion. But the most […]
Continue reading“Spring”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity””Far more powerful than all this sensory input, overwhelming really, was the deep draught of spring which he kept gulping down. Intangible, impalpable, invisible…but utterly overpowering was spring. It was a softness in the air through which he ran, a fragrance coming up from flowers newly blossomed, a joy in the flights […]
Continue reading“The Salvific Power of Music”
My adolescence was, as most are, a lonely period of my life. I was used to being my own best company, but the longings of unrequited romance and friendship made that time of budding adulthood painful. I filled most of my hours with the repetitive activities of academic and athletic work, but it was the […]
Continue reading“The Birth of Spring”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “The Birth of Spring”: “As the earth, kissed by the vernal sun, slowly awoke like a Sleeping Beauty, smelling of warmed, natural perfumes and fecund loins, stretching her dazed limbs, smiling up at the clear skies, everything around her came to life as well. Bird couples swooped and fluttered in delight […]
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