“Genuine Spirituality”
“Let us have rituals and churches, bureaucracies, rules, politics, robes, feast days, sins, holy waters, hand-washings, kneeling, aiming directionally, and the ringing of bells; let us mate and call it holy and beat drums and feel the pulse of the universe; let us interpret our fellow beings’ auras and cleanse their chakras, heal them with […]
Continue reading“Rings of Life”
“Watching the smoke rings appear, float, rise, stretch, warp, grow faint, and disappear, watching them swallow motes of polygonal dust, glow in the full glare of the sunshine, outline a leaf on the apple tree outside the window, mingle with an amorphous cloud of passing vapor, turn into surprised or smiling mouths, and then finally […]
Continue reading“Time”
“Even within human life, time stretched and shrank. A child’s day resembled an octogenarian’s month, not, as most people claimed, because a day represented a larger percentage of a child’s life than of an adult’s, but because the number of discoveries made by a child in a given period of time so outnumbered those made […]
Continue reading“Sweet Baby James”
“The rhythm of the chorus evoked a Wild West waltz: a whirl of ladies in satin dresses of dense kingfisher-blue and deep-woods fir, whose abundant hair had been pinned back, whose honest faces and smiles of unparted lips bent upward to their partners. These images arose from the waltzing footsteps of the chorus, but the […]
Continue reading“Ziggy Stardust”
“‘Ziggy Stardust’ represented a side path, an evolutionary branch nature chose not to continue, a revelation of the coolness of androgyny, a space metaphor based on a queer inverted geometry which took its new audience by surprise, but, in the process, thrilled it, amazed it, and made it want to dance. Nothing existed to which […]
Continue reading“Bowie’s Music”
“Dovetailing into these ruminations as it did, the music of the Brixton bisexual acted on Skylar in the manner ultraviolet radiation affects flower buds: causing him to quickly open up to the genuine experience of his own anima for the first time. He began to dance in sinuous flows, undulating with a graceful sensuality he […]
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