Archive for January, 2009
Warrior Of Light: Inventory of normality
I decided to conduct a survey among my friends about what society considers to be normal behavior. What follows is a list I have made of some of the absurd situations we face in day-to-day life, just because society sees them as normal: 1] Anything that makes us forget our true identity and our dreams [...]
Quiet Time
I see You, God in this morning-cerulean sky; I feel You in the sun illuminating this frozen landscape. I speak; You talk and I hear You in a breeze that scatters from high limbs tufts of snow – little white angels fluttering and dancing on currents. In this season of withdrawal, purity is born of [...]
Stain on a carpet
the window offers a view beyond the horizon I want to see, where life continues. trees, birds, clouds — God’s creations just like me but not for eternity, foreverness, for long. Maybe for a while, until life’s certainty takes over and ends. But the stain on the carpet remains.
Numb
Every loss accepted, This, my weakest path, The earth begins to crumble I’m feeling sorrow’s wrath. A bridge that can’t support me Becomes my promised route. Promises that withered Prior to this pursuit. Tiring words are spoken, Shattering emotion. A simple dream, not started And I’m tired of the notion. The notion that I’m right, [...]
A year and a half ago I transcribed here in this column a piece of news from the CNN saying that on 31 October 2004, resorting to a feudal law that was abolished in the following month, the town of Prestopans, in Scotland, granted official pardon to 81 people — and their cats — executed [...]
Eyes Everywhere
Six eager eyes follow me, three tails gyrate and the middle one called a pure mountain feist nibbles, eats only a few bites. Later as I pack up holiday clutter, her eyes flutter, legs stiffen. All goes blank. Seizures and sickness to delayed house training these unwanted ones take us in, becoming our universe. I [...]
Hail Mary Pass
The first snow of the season lay two floors below, and as he glanced out into the night sky he caught sight of a star twinkling off in the distance. He momentarily closed his eyes and like a desperate quarterback threw a Hail Mary pass out into the night, hoping for its completion — a [...]
Starting fresh (in 2009)
resolutions, or so it seems, is all we care about – loosing weight and quitting smokes and definitely getting out to run a mile or maybe more we’ll rid ourselves of flab we must go earlier to bed and vow to eat less fat vacations must be taken soon, to places [...]
Christmas Tale : The music coming from the house
On Christmas Eve, the king invited the prime minister to join him for their usual walk together. He enjoyed seeing the decorations in the streets, but since he didn’t want his subjects to spend too much money on these just to please him, the two men always disguised themselves as traders from some far distant [...]
