Category Archives: Chrysalis

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

The Wanderer by U2 (starring Johnny Cash) I went out walking Through streets paved with gold Lifted some stones Saw the skin and bones Of a city without a soul I went out walking Under an atomic sky Where the … Continue reading

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Out of the Chrysalis

So spake the wise man in his mind, where he sat apart in counsel. Good is he who keeps his faith, And a warrior must never speak his grief of his breast too quickly, unless he already knows the remedy- … Continue reading

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When the Sun Comes up Tomorrow

Who is this that dares accuse one of My chosen ones? Let him come before My Court, and present his case with the competence of dust, the understanding of ashes! Tell me, man of the world, Are you higher than … Continue reading

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Pstorm 153

Disconnection connects– for without noise, one can listen for the most important Voice.

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To the Moon…Sort of

Friend.  ”Did you know there is more computing power in an i-Phone than there was in the Apollo missions to the Moon?” NorEaster.  ”But an i-Phone can’t take you to the Moon.” Less is more.

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Pstorm 152

Honest sinners make better friends than false saints– who shoot the wounded.

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Pstorm 151

Safer am I among the unforgiven than I am among the unforgiving.

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Pstorm 150

O Lord, the fires of my youth have become a burning anguish at my age. Revive my soul. Renew my strength. Grant me the conviction to seek You with sincerity. Though I am poor, make me rich in faith. And … Continue reading

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Pstorm 149

Fanaticism forsakes identity.  And self- righteousness consumes the self.

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Pstorm 148

Better a question in the light than an answer in the darkness.

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Pstorm 147

I see the daylight ending. I see the darkness spreading. I see faith fading fast. And few enduring… …to the last.

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Pstorm 146

I have been through the fire before. And I have the burns on my broken heart to prove it. And time and time again, the Refiner turns up the heat. Though never have the flames scorched so much as in the … Continue reading

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Utopia(s)?

grape by grape he eats and each and every is his bottle after bottle he empties and each and every is him

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the Fate of Venus

she’s outside and scraping the windshield of her green station wagon with crayons and coloring books in the back

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Descension

an amber angel glowing growing in ocean night definitive devil sowing knowing not insight but lying dying in dawn light

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