Daylight on the Garden of Good and Evil
He repented only that he had not done a better job of concealing this fact from his wife.”
Not All Roads Lead Home
In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. Before the Technicolor fairy tale of a quartet of troubled characters trekking through a foreboding forest hoping to gain what they lack from the “great and powerful” Self-Gnosis (The Wizard of OZ), there is a tale…
Not All Roads Lead Home
In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. Before the Technicolor fairy tale of a quartet of troubled characters trekking through a foreboding forest hoping to gain what they lack from the “great and powerful” Self-Gnosis (The Wizard of OZ), there is a tale…
The Housekeepers
The five-day conference, “Alethea Lit Conference – Form without Substance? brought Irene to town. She was to lead the symposium O Still Voice of Calm on day three. On Sunday evening Irene checked into room 351 and got settled. Pulling back the drapes she could see a terrace and beyond that the wooded campus of…
One is Not the Loneliest Number When Divided by Two
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” Tennessee Williams “…guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong to no place”-George Milton, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men “Social dislocation can…
Ritual Meet Entropy: A Father’s Story
Ritual. During my train rides to and from work, I will read non-fiction on my way in to work and fiction on the way home. That has been my habit for the past seven years. For example: Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading from N.T. Wright’s Kingdom New Testament and Leon…
The Road Less Traveled By – To The Solidification Zone
You are about to take a bus ride into another dimension. No, not a trip to the Twilight Zone. Or, maybe it IS to the Real Twilight Zone! Despite the nonsense that comes from Oprah’s media pulpit, all roads are not radii that lead to God and Heaven. Instead there will be a Fork in…
Kingdom Venturers 