As winter coughs its arrival into my world it delivers puffs of nostalgia and wisps of yearning. As the melodies of familiar holiday tunes warm my sentimentality, the loss of innocence strums discordant notes. This unfortunality, is that the nascent, desperate, shimmering optimism that the holidays once portrayed seems to no longer hold sway. I […]
Month: November 2014
Shifting Sights
For so long I was angry. I was distressed and full of energy and confusion. I was swayed easily by my naivety. And my anger was directed towards, in retrospect, so many things which bore me no ill will, nor had the immediate impact upon which my life would have hinged, nor my anger justified. […]
Lighter hand trick
Does this make you feel anything? Do you recall how it felt to have fire in your soul? Is it still there, or has your complacency extinguished it like a whore in a snuff film? Have you traded it for weariness? Have you traded it for sadness? Have you traded it for happiness? Was […]
Forest Sanctuary
Paris lived in the tree, deep in the forest, for many years. The tree-dwelling allowed him a distance from the ground, but not quite clearance to the skies. It was in this limbo that he found the isolated peace that afforded him balance with the world. Occasionally, forest creatures would gather about the base of […]