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Ah Eden. Paradise lost. Was it ever real or merely a construct of human imagination, a place created in the mind to explain and ease our suffering? A past and future promise that there is a place we can return if only we get “it” right. Yesterday I discovered that… Continue Reading 100 Words on Eden
Oh my god, you thought I died or something, didn’t you? Nope. I’m still alive and kicking, but my wrist did almost fall off this week, and my head did almost explode, and my well-being did fall down a slippery slope, but that’s another story. And holy batman readers,… Continue Reading 100 Words – Hidden Spark OR Velvet Verbosity isn’t Dead Yet
Good morning! I am inexplicably delighted that it is Tuesday. Perhaps because Tuesday is not Monday. Perhaps I am still riding high on the good news of a friend. Perhaps because I am just poking my head out of a long, blue funk, and I always feel hopelessly hopeful (hehe,… Continue Reading 100 Words – Openings
Who are these, my teachers? Not who I expected them to be. Not who anyone expected them to be. Lessons learned on love from a triad and a single journeying man. Lessons learned on parenting from a teenage boy. Lessons learned on patience from an angry, venomous girl. Lessons… Continue Reading 100 Words – Lessons
First, let me just get this out of the way. I got carded the other day. Not just carded. When I handed the guy my license, he laughed and said, “Wow!”. When I asked what the “Wow” was for, he said, “Nothing. I just wasn’t expecting, you know, 1970. I… Continue Reading Watercolors? Who Knew?
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We are two mirrors – you and I… reflecting endlessly toward each other shimmering surfaces of silver smoothed and glassed revealing only other and not ourselves yet through this actwe do reveal – for two souls so alike bound in separate skins when reflecting -in fact- reveal / Digg this… Continue Reading 2 X 2 = 1
In these long sad days, I remember things… important things. How to breathe, how to sit, how to move. The shape of my skin stretched across muscle and bone. The hows and whens and whys of being alone… because that is how it will be at the last breath. /… Continue Reading At the last breath…
A new Friday means time for 100 Words here at Velvet Verbosity. If you’re wondering what this is all about, click the picture above to learn about the 100 Word Challenge. There’s still time to submit, I’ll add you here. I am stunned that Lceel took it upon himself to… Continue Reading 100 Words on Bold
