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Blog Central
Bits of ideas and images we've just had to express lately.
August 5, 2007:
Carla and Rebecca at an intersection:
Rebecca: Why's that guy just sitting there? Why is he waiting for me to go?
Carla: Maybe because he has a stop sign.
Rebecca: But so do... oh, I don't. Heh heh. Well, I guess that explains his behavior.
Carla: Mmm. But what explains yours?
August 4, 2007:
There are far too many people these days whose retirement plan is a sudden, massive heart attack.
Melanie West
August 1, 2007:
Science has determined that the elemental seeds of life are scattered throughout the universe, drifting on cosmic winds until settling in hospitable soil.
When we encounter the inhabitants of distant worlds, however different they may seem, we will be kin. For we are all descended from the primordial explosion of being, tumbling through the universe of time into these forms now. If only we could remember that, nothing we experience need be strange or terrible, just another version of what we could be.
Rebecca T. Dixon
July 2007:
I see nothing admirable about being terribly busy. It is either
a scheduling error, or a failure of the social order.
Melanie West
June 2007:
Emptiness
I was a twister of emotion
cutting through my life
a swath of destruction.
It seemed to me to be life
itself, this
intensity, as if the trouble
to speak
could only be justified
by a tremendous noise.
Everything I encountered
yielded to my passion,
until the day I came
to the edge of life
and saw
the emptiness sourrounding
all experience.
It quieted me
like a divine voice
that stills the waters.
In the face of nothing,
all my passions seemed
a child's pretense
and every
thing, in its simplicity
stood silent, sacred
in the miracle of being
exactly what it is.
Rebecca T. Dixon
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