Imagine, if someone you cared about, came up to you, looked into your eyes and said, “I See You” and just stood there? (did you feel that odd ‘pause’ in the air?) I wonder, could this be the “new” way to say, “I love you?” What is “Love” anyways? Merriam-Webster defines the word as: 1 […]
I was forced to pause at the edge of the precipice…
…and then I turned around and looked back. It was breathtaking and I wept. In pursuit of tomorrow, I had forgotten about yesterday. M.S McCown 2019
The Potter’s Field
This story begins with a venial sin, impatience was my crime. By acting with gall, it didn’t take long for God’s messenger to stop on by. With hopes to mend a broken friend I thought I’d give God a call. A prayer was said, just before bed But there was no reply at all. By […]
Cascade
On many a night, they’d hide from sight and yield the carnal way. Though passion begged silence, their Conscience, defiant, would caution them not to stray, “Lust and desire, a sure path to Hell’s fire!” but the words, unheard, would always fade away. With gluttonous thirst, in the abyss, live the cursed adrift, they would […]
A Thought
We opened the box…
The shower is my sanctuary. Its glass walls providing a steamy blackboard where the problems of the world are examined, tested and solved. My mind drifts wildly as the warm water pours across my shoulders, washing life’s drama into the basin, where I watch it splash and swirl before it flows into the drain. I […]
It’s time to “own” yesterday…
In the early 1900’s, George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This aphorism is, arguably, one of the most important sentences ever written. It reminds us that history has an ugly habit of repeating itself. Today, we appear hellbent on removing anything from our history that might be […]
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