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Nature Makes Us Ultimately Responsible

Posted on March 10, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

That perhaps our presence in the world is quite starkly a plaything belonging to our fundamental provenance. That happiness can be known through the joy of our being received, if only by a silent and benevolent godhead planet hurdling our … Continue reading →

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Existentially Bored

Posted on March 8, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

In my quest to understand the world, I am continually preempted by my own thought of what, in the meantime, I am to do in it. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Posted on March 3, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

What fails to express, is best understood in the next pure pause between a perfect feeling  and wanting word tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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The Sentinel

Posted on March 1, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

To be a sentinel in the darkest silence of your presence. Soft release, a mist of hope inward drawn as essence. So the breaths of lovers curl in moonlight cast aglow, Melodic dreams to blend and purl, a sweet diminuendo. … Continue reading →

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Rebuild

Posted on February 24, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

We can either resign ourselves to continue to destruct, or concede defeat and rebuild. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Where we are now

Posted on February 24, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

…For some the meaning of life is murmured over dinner plates in silent torpor… it’s purpose, startled into realization between clinking wine glasses. For others, it is to see deeply into our present and to skirt the pulsing stars, to … Continue reading →

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Beer

Posted on February 17, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

And I tell you, when you get there – it doesn’t flash like a light, no backlit Hollywood hero on horseback. It mellows in quickly and you feel it, you know? It’s, uh, it’s…well anyway. There’s nothing more important than … Continue reading →

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A Gold Dipped Metaphor

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were it not for a volcano exploding in Asia and shifting the earth for moment, I’d not have caught my balance on a cliffs edge in North America. So certain was I that plate tectonics was my guardian angel; and … Continue reading →

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Ode to the Conquerer of Great Distance and Time

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude:  As We Arrive Your love found me, as if two suns rose from the east and west at the same time.  Where their rays met would be indistinguishable, and why even understand it. What we feel in touch is … Continue reading →

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All the Love in the World

Posted on February 15, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

All the love in the world we need    can be fit on the tip of a pinmore than the bounty of earth, sky, and sea     it would sooner get under our skin. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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