Category: Legacy Archive
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Stuff – Noun or Verb?
I have 14 drafts saved on this thing. They are ideas, the beginning of poems or stories and essays that need attention some day. I also have pieces of paper filled with words in boxes and journals that had been scattered around in various places. Much of it has been untouched for years. Some of…
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Vincent
I think this is my all time forever favorite song. I’ve loved it since I was a boy. I did not understand then. It just moved me somehow. I think I am beginning to understand now. Not something to do in your spare time. It is so rich and layered with meaning. Don’t ever…
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What say ye, cap’ain? | Impromptu Promptlings
What say ye, cap’ain? | Impromptu Promptlings. This is a friend of mine though we have never met in the flesh. She is wise and sensitive and and is a worker of miracles though she may not acknowledge them. Read this beginning of her story and encourage her to finish it. It is a thing…
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Writing with Crayons
I should draw better than I do by now. But as I look at this, my art, I smile. It is teaching me something. It taps into a part of my soul that has been left unattended for too long. I remember him. He was a sweet shy thing, curious and loving. They called him…
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Madness and Longing
What is it that motivates some to become dissatisfied with the “good” and go off seeking the sublime? At times risking all, destroying self, bringing on suffering, grief, and poverty of the Soul? It is called by many names. Longing, soul ache, wanderlust, calling, pilgrimage, the “pearl of great price,” I’ve heard it spoken of…