“Musical Vibrations”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “And above all other delights, be they discussion or artwork, floated the music that filled this room. Skylar and his guests orchestrated the music, like Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, to match the atmospheric conditions of the moment: it might be dreamy, romantic, playful, exotic, transcendental, assertive, or childlike depending on their […]
Continue reading“The Unbounded Heart”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Skylar’s heart did not simply emerge from the oubliette where it had long hidden, but it issued from that neglected darkness with the spiritual effulgence of a saint who has spent fifteen years in ceaseless communication with God. It was no longer a question of finding his heart inside his body […]
Continue reading“Revery on a Painting”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “He found it charming that he could hear the splashes as the dolphin sped through the waters of the lake and of outer space and that he could feel the cool pearlescent radiance coming out of the moon as it floated just out of the reach of the nucleus: a moon […]
Continue reading“Spell of Luna”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “”Several nights later, I was on the ocean road heading back to the apartment. Like a drunk or a man with love eyes fixated on the woman at his side, I could not focus on the road down which I drove, but, instead, felt a spell from on high drawing my […]
Continue reading“All This”
The rich-scented earth, the violets and lilies of the valley, the virginal breath of young spring. That otherworldly blue-green color of the paradisal cove in Italy, which no painter has ever rivaled. The heady tropical perfumes that, wafting around one’s soul, combine to whisper “Hawaii.” The biting, liquid air on the first morning snowfall of […]
Continue reading“Dreamy Love”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “Conventional wisdom had it that girls got such notions from reading fairytales and too closely identifying with their heroines. As best he could remember, Skylar had not spent much time on these stories and therefore could not fairly blame them for his chronic romanticism. He must have carried forward his dream […]
Continue reading“The Gifts of India”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “India had developed technology whose grandeur, scope, and precision boggled the mind. In comparison with it, the moon flights and electron microscopes of the West were child’s play. For India had technology, in its systems of yoga and meditation and its corpus of Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads, that revealed “miracles” to […]
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