“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 […]
Continue reading“Princeton”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Seeing Princeton once had been enough to cause Skylar to fall in love with the University’s physical beauty. But viewing the place pillowed in down and spread with duvets smoothly immaculate, elevated its charm to an almost-painful level. The campus cushioned and enwrapped in snow represented one’s ever-alluring lover, now ravishing, […]
Continue reading“The Campus”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “The buildings had variegated slate roofs, crenellated turrets, pointed arches, and leaded, mullioned, casement windows. The sandstone of their walls, modulated, in gray, buff, violet-brown, and muted black, gave an observer the refreshing, comforting impression of a stream bed. Doors to the dormitories were arched and massively heavy, studded with thick, […]
Continue reading“The High Purpose of Art”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Art, Skylar saw, had the same high purpose as the traditions of spirituality: to remind oblivious humanity of its purpose on earth, to arouse in it the desire to find the way back to the Garden, to inspire it with such visions of Paradise that the pursuit of anything less came […]
Continue reading“Sunrise”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Day came first to Olympus: the gods on high rode in coaches of amethyst, past shrines of dark-violet rubellite, above plains of black-opal pink, protected by canopies of light-spinel-red, over roadways made from rosy quartz, and under sconces of moonstone. The highest wispy clouds looked like pink ballet tutus and swirls […]
Continue reading“The Absolute in the Physical”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Spiritual evolution consists in first discovering and then bringing the wisdom, the Love, of the Absolute into one’s physical existence. If one makes these discoveries but fails to bring them down into the body, so that they can be lived in daily life, then one has only half succeeded. The process […]
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