Category Archives: Searching
Subjectivity
Blurring the lines, graying the area, cross dressing. Tipping the scales …letting them waver. Getting out of the box and obscuring, to acknowledge subjectivity. Realizing it was never that simple. And you’re so, so very glad it wasn’t.
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A New Level for Vintage “Little Mermaid” Obsession
This Wednesday post is not technically based in health, science or practicality. And in the name of all the princess and mermaid and snarfblat lovers out there, I care not. This is about magic and true love. Ok, well, maybe … Continue reading
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Inclusive, Progressive Humanity
“He drew a circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.” -From the poem “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham, American … Continue reading
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Fish: Part 2 of ?
It’s been a while… here’s Part 1. I awoke with a start to the flapping sound of wings. The gull that had been digging though the crumbs of my basket, scared by some shift of the wind, rose high into … Continue reading
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Snapshot Rush
Wow. I’d forgotten about this one. I’ve touched it up a little (very little), but originally wrote it during the fall semester of 2006, for Prof. Osborn’s fiction workshop. It makes me miss my days at Russ’… just a little … Continue reading
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Resurrecting a ‘Dead’ Museum
In my hometown of Grand Rapids, MI, we have an aging building that used to house our public museum. Since the completion of its replacement in the 1990s, the 1940 Art Deco/Art Moderne museum of my childhood has acted as … Continue reading
OMG
On a Micromanaging God: I do not think that is the way a Universal Mind would do things When I hear a sermon on coming back to Church that seems directed so perfectly to me I deem it a Happening … Continue reading
All the Fine Men
George Washington would have made a great boyfriend. As a young man he was tall, strong, had thick reddish-brown hair and, at the time, his own teeth. He was very focused on his career and carried good family connections. Even … Continue reading
Roman Cosmology, Part 2 of ?
Lunch with her mother was a weekly occurrence for Imogen. Sandy had a sound philosophy for why this should be. “We’re both housewives now. Kept women. You have plenty of time to let me make you poppy seed chicken salad. … Continue reading
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Roman Cosmology, Part 1 of ?
“But it is nobler and more perfect to be at rest than to be moved. Therefore, the highest sphere ought to be at rest…” -John Buridan, early 14th Century Imogen walked into her red dining room and found Mark at … Continue reading
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