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Tintinnabulation
I just received word from Reader Views that I am a semi-finalist for their literary contest, and yesterday I failed to reach that level for another contest. All interesting and exciting. A very good review appeared on Reader Views yesterday and then I was notified that it went big time and was on USA Today (online) and Reuters (online). I have no idea if this will affect sales but that would be very nice. A reviewer of Down to a Sunless Sea asked to read my opus, The i Tetralogy, and in essence she is telling me that I am…
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The Parable of the Sea Wall, and Other Things
For a while I read Alice Miller, and was moved to underline this quotation in one of her books: “The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves.” Although not consciously Down to a Sunless Sea works this premise up into stories such as “Billy’s Mirrored Wall,” “Mortise and Tenon,” to some degree, and “Herbie.” And the above essay, which is factual ,reveals my own relationship to my mother (See “The Parable of the Sea Wall,” La Fenetre, 2007, online).…
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Again I Feel the Soft Need to Express Something
It is a beautiful day in Green Valley, the temperature is warming. The light is bright but not enough to make you blink. I have had many hits on this site but very few comments, much like an infant crying his or her heart out but mom and dad do not respond. I find it analogous to our situation in the universe, the waa-waa of human beings in the void, no one to hear us, much less respond. It only goes to prove a point I’ve been making in these blogs — perhaps they are misnamed and should be called…
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You Feel It, But You Just Can’t Palpate It
Here I sit looking out my paned window at the Arizona light and feeling that I want to say something, but not knowing what. It is not an itch to write or a compulsion so much, but a Windex smear across my internal optic (huh?). I still don’t have it as I fuss with these words within this sentence which is coming to an end. So I lean back on my squeaking chair and wait. Please wait as I wait. Something says that I should write about conditioning, a major theme in the works of the spiritual master, Khrishnamurti. At…