“There is often a preternatural silence during sunset, almost as if the rest of nature has decided to watch the pageantry in suitable awe. The ravens stop squawking, the squirrels cease their foraging, the deer lie down in their leafy beds, and even the wind rests momentarily out of respect. As the man and woman […]
Continue reading“The man had first heard “Magnolia” as a twenty-two-year-old. After taking a spur-of-the-moment van ride to New Orleans, with friendly Cajuns he had just met that night, he found himself reclining, eyes closed, on a lounge chair in the backyard of a small house in that mysterious city. And there he met “Magnolia.” The song […]
Continue reading“And yet, as she listened to him talk about an event from that time, she heard it with a fresh ear. This made sense, if one thought about it; for every time a story is told, it is told in a new temporal and locational setting; it is told by a person different than the […]
Continue reading“Debussy had taken them on a supremely inspired journey through the subtle realms of creation, up from Total Stillness to the minutest quiverings of life, up from these faintest quiverings to ever more concrete excitations of vital energy. They had been witnesses to the dawning of a day, to the awakening of the animal kingdom, […]
Continue reading“The tragedy, as the couple knew, was that all these deformed creatures were actually Beings of Immaculate Light. They all were, in Essence, nothing but Pure Consciousness. But the Light of that Consciousness, as a result of thousands of lifetimes spent in ignorance, had gotten almost completely obscured by the accumulation of dirt on Its […]
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