Last night, I stayed over at my sister’s place. At dawn this morning, as I lay awake in bed (my body clock is awfully messed up, so I had actually been awake since midnight), I saw my 7-year-old niece standing just at the door of the room where I slept. She was peeking in, obviously […]
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The other day, I glimpsed a movie scene of a dragon, breathing fire. Its hide was thick and thorny, its teeth bared sharp and spiky. Some humans, they were trying to gun it down, the monstrous thing. But the pelts, the bullets, the shots that were fired just bounced off of the dragon’s hide. […]
Hush now, darling, the worst is over. The storm is done and out. Water’s sliding down the drain or up, up, up, evaporating. Look anew at the world around you, is it not fresh and light, renewed? Look again at the child behind you, Is she not stronger, wiser now? Look now, right here, the […]
… Of searching and finding, giving and taking, breaking and creating. … I am willing the dusk to stay, because I like this time of day. It triggers a sense of reflection no other time of day can. I am sifting in my head, the things I’ve learned of late. There are three. #1. You […]
We had a new laboratory blessed today. We held up candles lit as the priest muttered His blessings. Drip, drip drip. The wax from our lighted candles went. I looked at a droplet of candle wax quickly drying on the newly scrubbed floor. This droplet will be seen: by a student bored with the lecture […]
Three encounters, one question. · • · Encounter one. I came across an old woman once, while I was out running an errand for work. She and I happened to leave the same place together, then rode together in a tricycle on the way out. Since the bill I had was enough for both of our fares, […]
There is pain in every fold, every ridge of this convoluted life. There is pain in each of us, tucked in our own folds or evident on our ridges, in the spaces between our fingers and the dark beneath our eyes. But because of our separateness, I could be in pain, tearing up inside—and yet […]
InkBlots and IceBergs 