salt and stars
Protective stars brought a salted comfort along with wax-drip figures upon death-cold stonework. Charming the night in shadow-quarters, with besom at hand to protect my gate. The spiders were peaceful...
View Articlearmchair asylum
I sit in my peaceful madness, sensing safety in numbers; numbers of dreams, memories, voices; each mind-vulture pecking at the time-line carrion; stripping flesh from bones; bones that arrived long...
View Articlewe are many
I floundered in your ocean of insults until the brainwashing took hold and I started to believe the venom. I created many homunculi that would feed this poison back to affirm it’s grip on my reality....
View ArticleThe Old Country
How chilling: the winds of memory, the phantom’s breath, and a troubled man swinging from the end of his tether. An instant family brings instant relief, and yet the frozen ground still wears out the...
View ArticleThat Night
That night you slept like a baby, wrapped in your own innocence. your hair flowed like a river and I drowned in the scent of horse chestnut and amor-amor. Your breathing was so delicate, so fragile;...
View ArticleThe Wraith
A cold morning; a bitter morning; a landscape of bitter herbs beneath a vinegar sky. The coffee was warm, as was the barista. A nice smile though she knew me not; would she still be smiling if she...
View ArticleFor Mišo
In his chest a country thrives, yet eyes, soft and all seeing (for he has seen it all) reveal a melancholy that all will carry yet few will have the courage to feel. He talks of love and wine; of...
View ArticleMessage in a Bottle
This could be any other town, any other street, any other coffee-chain; only the fog was different: more noticable than decaying family life; more meaningful than the alleys of vomit; more inspiring...
View ArticleSoon only Bones
I have no home, save the stars I cannot reach or the moon I cannot touch or the desert I gave up for you. In buildings and on benches; and yet no place to rest my...read on ↠
View ArticleIt’s not Over
There is a semicolon in my life; it stands at the edge of time, like a gateway, right on my pain threshold. I stare into the jaws of space, dark-matter; as shapes, wraiths and fallen...
View ArticleStoic Week – introduction
I have committed to a week of Stoic living. I’ve included a link to Stoic week and the resource I am using; you’ll find it at the end of the article. It’s simpler to share the link so that you...
View ArticleStoic Week – day 1
Yesterday was day 1 of my Stoic week. I started off with the thought for the day and then began my morning meditation. Again, there is a link to the project and the instructions at the end. Stoic theme...
View ArticleStoic Week – day 2
This day was a real challenge for me. Here is the morning text that started my day: It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it...read on ↠
View ArticleStoic Week – day 3
So this was my morning thought: Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I might meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious and unsocial. All this has...
View ArticleStoic Week – day 4
Here was my morning thought: Train yourself to think only those thoughts such that in answer to the sudden question ‘What is in your mind now?’ you could say with immediate frankness whatever it is,...
View ArticleStoic Week – day 5
Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.49 Praemeditatio futurorum malorum....
View ArticleStoic Week – day 6
At break of day, when you are reluctant to get up, have this thought ready to mind: ‘I am getting up for a human being’s work. Do I still then resent it, if I am going out to do what I...read on ↠
View ArticleStoic Week – day 7
The main theme for today focuses on the idea of ‘The View from Above’. The name of this idea comes from Pierre Hadot who found references to it throughout ancient literature, particularly from the...
View ArticleStocic Week – a conclusion
When I embarked upon this Stoic Week I had no real expectations. I was starting to struggle again and I needed something solid to deal with my trauma; and zazen was not helping. In late 2013 I was...
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