“Dawn at the Lake”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “As I stood there on the shore of the lake, I knew that I was living one of those rare moments in life that are so powerfully poignant one will never forget them. There was the sheer beauty of the pale-peach clouds, above us in the sky and […]
Continue reading“Ripple”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: At Yak’s guidance, Hebie had put the Dead’s American Beauty album on the turntable. “Ripple,” the song Artus had earlier talked about as relating to Pure Consciousness, began to play. First, there was the downhomeyness of the acoustic guitar. Then Jerry Garcia began to sing to us, as […]
Continue reading“Love Among Friends”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “When I turned my attention from the floor back to the room, I experienced a surge of love for all my friends. It was the tenderest, most caressing love I had ever felt for anything. There was Yak. How generous he was to host us and provide for […]
Continue reading“Artus”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “Artus was a slim young man with soft brown hair that fell below his shoulders. His smile beamed pure kindness to all whom it graced. He lived high up in the tower of the dorm, where I imagined him working as a sort of modern Hermes Trismegistus, a […]
Continue reading“The Sun Breaks Through”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “On those rare days when the sun succeeded in emerging from the dense blanket of clouds that typically covered the sky, I would marvel at it. What hidden meaning lay in this star whose brightness precluded direct view? How moving were its long-stretched beams as they made their […]
Continue reading“Springtime”
Excerpt from “The Evolution of Skylar Seequn”: “The glory of nature enwrapped me in her sensuous arms. The rich, heady smell of the earth awakening after winter wafted up to me from the lawn beside the school. The eager, needful cries of the birds carried my eyes up to the trees to and from which […]
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