Imagery provides a powerful prompt for writing. This story moment started as a "daily intent" but quickly evolved into a scene of a soldier called before his superior to report "off the record" about something. Even as I wrote it, I sensed the "superior" could be God or some higher being to which the soldier could "confess." If you were granted an audience with your "superior," what would you say? What would you say is key to trusting life?
Read MoreWas I really in Toronto, Canada? Or was it the Matrix? Some philosophers give a 20% chance that we are already living in a computer simulation! They further conjecture that the closer we move toward creating virtual worlds populated with "conscious" sims, the more likely it is that we are actually living in one. And if we ever do create such a world, than the odds are near certain that we are in one too.
Have you ever had a palpable sense that the world as you know it could be an illusion?
Read MoreDid you skip stones on a lake surface as a child? This blog, actually written about a year ago, started as a writing session and ended with joyful memories of our family vacations to Lake Berryessa, where we would sometimes skip stones on the water...
Read MoreEvery family has its idioms, those phrases that get repeated, and sometimes used to ridicule or praise. "One gear" offers a little peek into my youth and an idiom my father used to direct at me or talk about me. What idioms were common in your vamily?
Read MoreHere's a little fable about long distance love...A story of how lovers are reunited when the long ago forgotten is remembered in whale songs!
Read MoreWord the World in a way that brings you to life and life to you!
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