“At times, at least ten of the meteors lit up the dark sky simultaneously. There were pauses, when they thought the shower had ended, but then the streaking lights returned to awe them once again. The ancients saw these showers as lucky or as bad omens, as human souls leaving their bodies, as angels being […]
Continue reading“The man stared up at one particularly bright star to the north. ‘People consider themselves stars, shining apart, everything unto themselves. They forget that the Infinite Space on which, despite their delusions of grandeur to the contrary, they are, as ego-identities, mere blips, is their genuine identity. That star,’ he pointed to it, ‘is merely […]
Continue reading“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“The Milky Way stretched out above them like a string of exploding fireworks. The thousands of visible stars reminded them of so many shotgun-pellet dents made in the windshield of the sky. The mystery of night and the infinite horizon rained down on them like flakes of invisible magic dust. The trees, reduced to black […]
Continue reading“The predominant feeling in Joshua’s awareness was that of pleasant surprise. At every turn, at any moment, unexpected joy bubbled in his being. Not the joy that makes one want to jump into the air and shout; no, a quieter joy, which brought a shy smile to his mouth and an appreciative twinkle to his […]
Continue reading“In the flats, the water was uniformly shallow and the foam residue of the waves extended for hundreds of yards, like suds in the bottom of a huge drained bath tub. Lanes formed behind the waves in this area, straight long-line streamers stretching out behind them as they broke towards shore. Auburn kelp fronds, swept […]
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