“Different”
“Why did she think herself different and weird? Front and center was her awareness of Eternity: she intuited that everything, absolutely (or, at least, relatively) everything that people in the world saw, felt, and thought about, was, in a crucial sense, unimportant. From experience she knew that there was an entirely different, better, infinite, and […]
Continue reading“Childhood Spirituality”
“Skylar’s saunter to school took, then, an ever-so-slightly-indulgent path on which stones came to magical life, fallen leaves wheezed goodbye to the world, and gutter water sluiced in turbulent runnels. These observations of animate nature were interspersed with time-transcendent, frozen moments in which he experienced a tangible sense of stoppage, of everything: of people, pebbles, […]
Continue reading“Youthful Dreams-2”
“He would have instantaneous rapport with her. Both would look and both would see; each would touch in synchrony. Like twins they would know one another’s thoughts without the exchange of words. All four eyes would drink in the petaled emanations of moonlight from the gleaming disk overhead. Both hearts would swell, joy-filled, at the […]
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“Romance! Yes, these were dreams of romance, and he cherished them. For him there existed a girl who embodied the eidolon of femininity and glinted with its many precious facets. He saw her as lovely, of course, but with the loveliness of a child, innocent and pure. Tenderness was the blood-stuff of her heart. Yet […]
Continue reading“The Wheel”
“On a long road, well into the night, the first frenzied, chaotic sounds of ‘The Wheel’ emerged from the car’s speakers; then the introductory beats of the side drum; and finally, that gorgeous, drawn-out note from the steel guitar: the one that was like the universe extending its vast arms in embrace. The man’s hand […]
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