How do I know anything at all? How do I know knowing, how do I know truth? How can I trust and believe? The concept of ‘God’ is a difficult one, as any teenager worth his salt will tell you. It lies like a deadweight across our freedom, an affront to our independence. And yet [...]
Continue Reading...I struggle to catch sight of the eternal. My faith is weak to aspire beyond myself. I seem to see the temple but no god within it. I discover the whole of creation, to the outermost limits of the universe, but no gate to let me through. What are all these stories of transcendent self [...]
Continue Reading...Chance is such a flighty and whimsical thing – or is it? Chance doesn’t exist at all except that our imagination furnishes it with laws and opportunities – or does it? Chance is a curse to the cursed and a boon to the blessed – or are curses and blessings merely fictions of the human [...]
Continue Reading...It is the time of year when the hosts of Persephone begin to rise out of the earth. The time of mercy and unseen justice. I stand here a penitent. The sins I have committed lie buried deep in the earth. I have to find them again and color them green. The [...]
Continue Reading...And Still (for . . ) Still I have your pictures on the wall, still the Christmas presents wrapped in midnight blue, with golden stars peeping out of the bag, still my dreams filled with images of you in every guise except the one too true for me to bear, the one where [...]
Continue Reading...My shadow, meanwhile, is bundled up inside me like a lonely cloud rolled up with many others to form a single thick covering overhead. I long for the clarification of sunlight to let my shadow stand proud of me. But I know too that I have to draw my shadow out, to pull it into [...]
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