Nothing is what it seems…

You know when the things you see physically with your eyes just don’t make sense? The grid from which you view things is telling you one thing, and yet what you see/experience is telling you something very different?
Have you ever had words spoken out loud, a physical thing moving towards you, get consumed by [...]

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Movement

This has been an interesting term – in all respects. Full of differences and nuances, challenges and strife, surprising joy and gratefulness seeming to well up out of nowhere. It is moving so fast though, like water falling through my fingers I see and feel these moments greet me and move on. [...]

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an ache

blurry
out of focus
aching
unsatisfied

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..

I turned and walked out the door and ran as hard as I could.

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The Valley Song

It is striking how one situation of grief you learn about seems too ripple into the lives around you. Learning of so many people in my circle of acquaintances that are dealing with losses of loved ones and are situated in grief at the moment. I sat down for some background music to [...]

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roads

Sometimes not knowing which way is up, or where you are heading, is exactly the place you need to be in order to locate yourself.

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tis the season

Walking today I was finally able to locate the emotion that’s been tugging at my corners for the last month and a half. True to the nature of things, it brought with it a whole new bag of things to feel. The leaves are turning and falling, the temperature is dropping, the rain [...]

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Greek Escape

I’ll admit that I felt bad walking out of class during the break, leaving in my wake all Plato, Aristole, Hegel, the reformers, and postmodernists had to say about what to think about the arts and why think about them at all. But it boiled down to a question of sanity; do I retain [...]

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Meta-narrative

I love the connection of things. How you can visit different places, hear different conversations, talk to friends, peers and strangers from different circles and the connections are there. Themes and story lines move and weave between these moments, speaking the same thing, catching my attention the same way, tickling that corner in [...]

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Today’s 10 beautiful things

I came to write a post tonight. I found my words curled up and sleeping over in the corner. My attempts to poke and prod them, luring them to come over, all proved futile. So instead of writing the thing I came to write about I thought it was time to pull [...]

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