“Spring 2”
“He felt the earth truly awakening after its frozen Midwestern hibernation. Soft thawed earth in the gardens. Lawns that had been rock hard, now mushy and moist. Permanent canopies of pale gray cloud were now rent to reveal irregular but welcome patches of butterfly-blue sky. It was as if a long siege against the fortress […]
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“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 common passe-partout, allowing short-lived escape from the […]
Continue reading“Ilona”
“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 girl. She was, even […]
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“The spring air smelled so full of life that Skylar wondered whether these refulgent pin points all ashimmer related in some way to that liveliness. No wonder, he thought, that spring was the season for new love: one only had to breathe in to understand the reason. Vernal air intoxicated the soul. Young people ought […]
Continue reading“The Shaman’s Lesson”
“The sun stood behind them. A beam of its light struck the overlaid chevrons of lapis and turquoise in the ring on Roberto’s index finger, causing the blue arrowheads to scintillate. Following the gleaming apex of the stone, the student’s sight line took him to a strange cloud formation in the west: a circle of […]
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