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Forget Love

Love is easy. Admiration is precious. Love is kind and effortless Admiration is ruthless and earned Love costs nothing Admiration costs a soul’s share What is your soul but self-respect A fusion star, a far-reaching reactor, a freewheeling factory Self-powering, self-contained, self-sustaining Spare not your soul for all, but know you have that to spareContinue reading “Forget Love”

Cagey Beasts (edit)

Shuffling his feet along the graveled city zoo trail, Nikolai pauses at the diverging fork and looks down at his prompt, typed neatly on a roughly cut strip of copier stock. ‘Find your spirit animal, identify one core value you share.’ This was an obvious and shallow team building exercise given to managers at anContinue reading “Cagey Beasts (edit)”

Mixing Rain Beads in the Sun

Is there anything more mystifying than a light rain shower in the warm sun? Where are you, you trickster cloud? Lingering plump above, making small puffs of vapor into the irradiated spring air. There you are, an awkward island in your empty blue ocean. Awkward and buxom, the forgotten bell of the ball. Blushing awayContinue reading “Mixing Rain Beads in the Sun”

Walls Closing on Methuselah

A historical cyberpunk – The evening city bent prismatic lights across the open floors of an ultramodern penthouse. They cast broken shadows over the figure of a man, standing bare chested with hemp-linen joggers at his floor-to-ceiling windows. Tidy smart-suite and spartan sleek walls behind him, consoles once subtly integrated into his decor, were nowContinue reading “Walls Closing on Methuselah”

Sacred Fractures

A Japanese parable on imperfection A light rain pinged on top crowded tin roofs and the frail old potter paced below the alleyway around his cooling ceramic. Canopied from the damp, he circled a patio table where his finished pot was perched, carefully assessing its fire-settled state. Slowing his paces, he nodded glibly, muttered aContinue reading “Sacred Fractures”

Bordeaux Swills Belief

Some parting thoughts, as I sit here in that adorably posh little neighborhood of Chartron, along the rue Notre-Dame, my farewell beer (grande, pas petite!) by my side in the open air (en plein air), preparing my departure after a transformative week in Bordeaux. My holiday flat along the Jardin Public was a treasure. AContinue reading ” Bordeaux Swills Belief”

A City Whispers, A Cerberus Answers

The Cerberus is the guardian of the gates of hell from Greek mythology. He is a three headed watchdog on steroids. The fiercest guardian one can adopt to patrol the boundaries of all your protected spaces. And this is what we all need sometimes, a terrifying brutish force to ruthlessly guard the spaces in ourContinue reading “A City Whispers, A Cerberus Answers”

Resolutions

Purpose comes and goes with cursory teasings. It delights and uplifts you from the darkest corners of your mind. It beckons you to action. To make a plan, to write, to call a friend, to ask for help, to charge out the front door, to choose an adventure. It coaches you with a reassuring handContinue reading “Resolutions”

Accepting the Charges

We are all charged particles. Borrowing energy and jumping between excited states. Excited by our surroundings. Transformed by the tiniest of charges passing around us. The creative mind knows best how to open itself into a state of receiving. To be in a state that allows and evokes change. That excited state of a chargedContinue reading ” Accepting the Charges”