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Week 17 – Dramatic hyperbole? Perhaps. But I am still here for it.
There is a degradation that happens in sadness. I nearly said shift, but that is exactly the wrong word. It doesn’t just change like that; it morphs. And that is the power of it. The erosion of the true, good, and the beautiful is so gradual that you don’t even realize that it is happening. But it is, and that makes the sadness worse, creating this Neverending Story type cycle of consumption by the Nothing.
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The Second Charcoal Fire
Falling Leaves, Filled Donuts, and Fierce Grace
Kobi and I began reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May after I came across it on…
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Week 8 – Things are Starting to Get Real
I am not discussing politics here – at least not right here. Perhaps it is a discussion for another post (probably not),…
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Week 17 – Dramatic hyperbole? Perhaps. But I am still here for it.
There is a degradation that happens in sadness. I nearly said shift, but that is exactly the wrong word. It doesn’t just change like that; it morphs. And that is the power of it. The erosion of the true, good, and the beautiful is so gradual that you don’t even realize that it is happening. But it is, and that makes the sadness worse, creating this Neverending Story type cycle of consumption by the Nothing.
Continue Reading Week 17 – Dramatic hyperbole? Perhaps. But I am still here for it.
Writers & Reading
Understanding Cormac McCarthy by Steven Frye (2009)
Acknowledgements “I have no desire to speculate on the behavior of a living author who in recent years has emerged as one…
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Weyward by Emilia Hart (2023)
Hart, Emilia. Weyward: A Novel – Hardcover. St. Martin’s Press, NY, 2023.- Audio. Narrated by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, and Nell Barlow, 20230307.…