Monthly Archives: August 2025

1291 FLAKES 08-30-25

… and out there, among the reaches of infinity, float skin-flakes from Gods finger-tips. Drifting there since Divinity was a little child skipping stones across streams of eternity. One flake scraped off, from Her pinky, perhaps, on the rough edges … Continue reading

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1290 POSSIBLE’s BETTER than PROBABLE 08-16-25

In all probability, I won’t die today, I mean, what the heck? It’s 11:21 PM as I write, according to my desk-clock. That leaves me just 39 minutes to break my neck, tripping over my chair in my dark study … Continue reading

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1289 PEACE! FOR NOW COMES THE STORM 08-12-25

The stillness in front of the storm is not before it, rather, part of it. When the chimes on the back porch are silent, the flat clanger hanging straight down in a breathless air. Not a ripple on the pond. … Continue reading

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1288 THANKS, PREACHER! 08-10-25

So, you say I’ve only left a faith in a hale and hardy hope and if not that, then a weakening grasp onto a chilly liberty granting me the freedom to accept there’s nothing coming after me but a deep … Continue reading

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1287 CERTAINLY NOT SUDDENLY 08-10-25

I didn’t just suddenly get old! I only, just recently realized that after a lifetime of aging, I AM! Not even can I hide behind that cheesy hope that I am only “getting older!” Nope! Truth won’t let that lie … Continue reading

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1286 IN HER, STILL, THE FIRE BURNS 08-03-25

Both were olderly. Both had been widowed, recently, relatively. (Relative to the decades they’d been espoused to their beloved spouses) and now were, surely, ready, he had said, “…to give it another go!” She had laughed in his face. And … Continue reading

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