“Two Palms”

“There were two palm trees standing side by side. One was lit up from below and one was not. The illuminated tree showed silvery green fronds, a shiny, rubbery stock, glowing, gleaming roughly ridged bark, and an otherworldly canopy that seemed to have descended from the heavens. The unlit tree stood dark, stark, and dull. […]

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“The Great Stage”

“Invisibly, the sun had now set. The sun makes the utter difference between an apparently living and a seemingly dead nature. As he plays on the water, a thousand transcendental thoughts pass through my mind. Each mirror glint on the sea reflects the Consciousness that put it there. As he reflects on the ephemerals of […]

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“Himalayan Sunset”

“While Theo was in the midst of unpacking his gear, the sun began to set. Theo stopped what he was doing and moved to a hummock overlooking the draw. The sinking sun had painted a wide swath of the mountains before him in deepest rose. The huge piles of cumulus set behind the tallest visible […]

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“By the Sea”

“The salt air cleansed his inner being. The reach and breadth of the ocean reminded him of matters grand and everlasting. The recurrence of the waves, their plashing, first hard and loud, and then soft and whispering, lulled his soul like a mother’s lullaby. Thousands of minute mirrors signaled urgent messages to whoever might be […]

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