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Monthly Archives: October 2014
night before – October 30
10.30.2014 night before a trip seems slow and tiring anxious and unending as if the bags will never pack and there’s always one more trick to accomplish like getting some sleep except, except what did I forget it’s on the … Continue reading
sitting by evening fire – October 27
10.27.2014 sitting by evening fire winds of autumn starting to chill the night air outside my eyes see a newer self in the hall mirror older, more lines, weariness askance, matching the soreness of muscles that now hurt … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, autumn, changes, faith, God, hope, life journey, mortality, reflection, seasons, soul, stages
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churches close up – October 26
10.26.2014 churches close up, fall vacant, stop trying. and where is God away, absent, busy elsewhere, while we took too much for granted and Jesus went to where voices and hearts are open still while the world … Continue reading
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Tagged church, churches, danger, distance, failure, God, Jesus, missing, resistance, sadness, secularism, self-indulgence
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the artist holds back – October 25
10.25.2014 the artist holds back post performance letting little out and few in to what burns. ——————–
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Tagged actors, art, artists, dishonesty, distance, hidden, hiding, separation, sin
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yard work – October 22
10.22.2014 muscles slightly sore eyes shining bright, yard work a good day. ———————
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Tagged aging, bodies, exhileration, gardening, Health, pleasure, work, yard work
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vulnerable unknowing – October 19
10.19.2014 a storm comes through, a tower a thousand miles away goes dark, the airplane stops. someone gets sick someone several thousand miles away dies, we freeze terrified. the electric is out in the morning for reasons we … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, fragility, ignorance, illusion, interconnectedness, links, modernity, safety, vulnerability
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road warrior harries – October 17
10.17.2014 exhausted nerves airport veterans flee to rooms, hotels, booking desks for any version of get me out of here. —————–
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Tagged air travel, anxiety, delays, fear, frustration, helplessness, inaction, travel
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gone – October 9
10.9.2014 I turned around and they were gone as if snatched in the rapture and only we the depraved were left feeling hollow. ————————
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Tagged care, connection, experience, feelings, friendship, loss, separation, the rapture
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10.4.2014 he built his own castle, over a three billy goats gruff bridge to a moat towered home his grandaddy’s Gettysburg bayonet hanging from a rafter, the only gun in the house where he measures wind and water to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, dabbling, dedication, detail, difference, genius, precision, vocation
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