Category Archives: vignette

Bliss is a Master of Disguise

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Every story is story within a story. And clarity doesn’t come while in lotus position, chanting in dhikr, near death experiences, or love making (although the latter two can be faintly indistinguishable) Rather, it is not just in the “doing” … Continue reading →

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Your Cat is Dead and I’m Smiling

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Photo credit: Alex Esquerra Last night your bedroom was tattoo-parlor-red… You were a relentless sex machine and your Alex Esguerra painting was knocked from the wall during our rough housing. I found it behind the bed when I was looking … Continue reading →

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Your Cat is Dead – Post Mortem

Posted on July 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We reduce love to the sexy acts we do within it.  We clench the carnal, like a drowning man clenches a block of granite and would hope to float.  All our sojourner  has is his sock in his hand – … Continue reading →

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The Albatross

Posted on May 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

This is the albatross… Our imaginations are like this; abnormally large wing spans, resting infrequently if at all for many trips around the earth, sleeping in flight, heart only racing when it lands… monogamous, faithful to it’s own solitude and … Continue reading →

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The Altar of Happiness, Ruins of Sorrow

Posted on April 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

…I mused an eon of my life one evening, on the purpose of existence and on what leaves me with the most certainty, those being both birth and death; as well as that which gives me the least certainty – … Continue reading →

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Be Unwritten

Posted on March 22, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

I am amazed at the resilience of the human spirit. It seems we rally around the stories of hero and heroine, rescuing the soul from the tracks as the train approaches. And as beautiful as this is, there is a … Continue reading →

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Introspection: Tetrabiblos (short version)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Introspection and a curious awareness of surroundings make for endless fields from which to amass self-inspired knowledge. This awareness does not manifest in words; no, these are only learned approximations of our inner experience (qualia) of the universe. We are … Continue reading →

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No Small Year (2013)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

No small year, he thought. People left the earth by violence, sickness, self neglect; friends of the heart were found, love reborn, spirit awoken. Confused by bitterness, blessed with forgiveness… he struggled as some turned their backs on him, while … Continue reading →

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The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived (Yep – Sun Gazing)

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

Think about it; the most creative moments of your adult life were the moments you allowed the child in you to play. rsb. Sad how growing older oft becomes the smothering of the innocent innovator – we are compelled to … Continue reading →

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ON CLERGYMEN BUGGERING LITTLE BOYS

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

Benedict Groeschel, Reverend of the Franciscan Friars of Renewal, recently claimed in an interview with a Catholic news source it was often the case that priests were seduced by teenagers…I knew this guy…he was a real RILF, if ya know … Continue reading →

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