“The Trip that is Music”
“If a lover gazes into the eyes of his beloved and thinks “I really wish that Van Dyke brown had a bit more of a ginger to it,” he is not truly in love. If one listened to “American Beauty” and noted that there was too much of an improvisational flavor to the songs, then […]
Continue reading“Utah”
“Dusk had begun to settle as they arrived and it obscured in shadow three-quarters of their view of the great aperture. Opaque were the monstrous piles of boulders rising all around them: some light gray, others blue gray, but most, rusted orange. So numerous were these rocks and so high their mounds that they might […]
Continue reading“A Pure Child”
“In everything, Elsa saw the soul. To her a woods was not a collection of trees and plants with an odd assortment of rocks scattered over the ground and some birds singing in the branches above, but a composite of living Spirit, of energy, pulsing, vibrating, swirling, interacting. She felt the deep silent energy of […]
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 […]
Continue reading“Ocean Dawn”
“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 beyond, below, and before […]
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