Got a call from Abram today to let me know that Dave Duprey hung himself two nights ago and is dead ( Read more... )

We say release, and radiance, and roses,
and echo upon everything that’s known;
and yet, behind the world our names enclose is
the nameless: our true archetype and home.

The sun seems male, and earth is like a woman,
the field is humble, and the forest proud;
but over everything we say, inhuman,
moves the forever-undetermined god.

We grow up; but ( Read more... )

This excerpt from the Hound of the Baskervilles sounds like it was written directly to me in reference to my life so far:

"Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that these foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing."A ( Read more... )

Being arches itself over the vast abyss.
Ah the ball that we dared, that we hurled into infinite space,
doesn't it fill our hands differently with its return:
heavier by the weight of where it has been.-Excerpt from Dove that ventured outside by Rilke ( Read more... )

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A year seems so far away... but I know it will come around ( Read more... )

Going over to Uncle Mike's tonight for dinner, Irish coffee and a thank-you letter writing party for funeral attendees ( Read more... )

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
-Gal. 6:9

Being arches itself over the vast abyss.
Ah the ball that we dared, that we hurled into infinite space,
doesn't it fill our hands differently with its return:
heavier by the weight of where it has been.
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What a lovely day to take a walk in the fresh, bright air. The blue in my hair glinted in the sunlight while I whistled like a little bird hopping on the sidewalk. My mission was to acquire a certain scrumtrilescent incense which goes by "Patchouli Forest" and I accomplished it with a smile on my face ( Read more... )

Last night I was up til 3am crying. It started out feeling guilty about things I had done/had not done while Lael was alive, and then turned into shock and terror when I remembered that that body I had said goodbye to was hers and she's not coming back. I had felt so much relief that the funeral was over and things were calming down a little, and ( Read more... )