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“That Afternoon”
“In the spirit of the colloquy on Oneness and duality they had all engaged in, Skylar now reflected on what ideas from that interchange he might apply to the day itself. He saw immediately that it would be counter-productive to put it on a shelf of honor and hope for other future days that might […]
Continue reading“Ocean Lover”
“Skylar could not make out the place where the surf broke. Low tide had drawn that break out into the blind distance. So, like a man with dead eyes, he only heard the water come. It came susurrantly, whispering, cooing, the audible equivalent of the back of a lover’s fingers running down one’s cheek in […]
Continue reading“Communion”
“At that time, in the early seventies, young people selected the music appropriate for an occasion carefully, for the music both symbolized their feelings at that moment and helped to deepen and expand them. Not merely background or atmosphere or something to be sporadically sung along with or swayed to, music functioned magically: creating entirely […]
Continue reading“Music for Eternity”
“A little boy’s speaking voice came out of the stereo. “I climbed on the back of a giant albatross / What flew through a crack in the cloud / To a place where happiness reigned all year round / And music played ever so loudly.” Small Skylar, Skylar of Eternity, knew about this place where […]
Continue reading“A Teenager’s First Glimpse of California”
“The sun stood high when Lammet woke. It was Saturday and the scene on which his tired eyes (assisted by his wire rims once he had found and positioned them) sought to focus caused his mouth and eyes to gradually open, giving his face a look of grateful astonishment. Kar had parked the van directly […]
Continue reading“End of Exams”
“The conclusion of final exams and the end of a school year bring into the vacuum they create a celebratory fervor akin to that felt by soldiers going off to war. One might expect quite the opposite: for the students have completed their onerous work and the warriors are only preparing to begin theirs. But […]
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