Daily Archives: November 24, 2016

A lion will never eat me because it hates me

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

I wonder what else have we bred out of the domestic house cat over all these centuries? I look at my cat Tiger and see the ancestry of vicious animals, vicious not out of malice, but nature. We sifted this from … Continue reading →

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-ness

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sometimes we are only organisms among organisms – we respond through both willful and involuntary action to primal instincts and desires, triggered by external causes. We covet and protect and hunt and gather. Other times, we are more complex than … Continue reading →

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I Came to Draw You

Posted on November 24, 2016 by skipavm@gmail.com

trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading →

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