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Mastering Peace

Mastering Peace In this state of awareness, a pure mind rests here in a flowing, calm light that reflects on the art of being alone to contemplate, which becomes your soulful treatment: a choice to be. Innermost: a new way forward. In the mirror of mirrors, quietude is a calm retreat in your room between the rooms of your soul. There to maintain an abiding peace below the surface. This knowledge teaches the mind the truth that lies beneath the...

Quietude

QUIETUDE Balance, in this calm stream of stillness. With a therapeutic peace that sleeps, like a queen. On an orthopedic mattress: Now that harmony has revived? Tranquility, while encircled with Tibetan sound bowls in restful moments, a higher intelligence, This inward journey defines distance in learning relaxation. One personal experience. Boundless space of mere simplicity: moment in life; where the air inside becomes a heart that asks for a...

A New Beginning

A New Beginning To be grounded, footed, safely on a firm foundation; built to withstand: The performance of a lifetime. While out running, outlast, outside the box; that breaks porcelain: a high-quality made in China, and relive experience, attachment to one's drive. All obstacles removed: removing hardships, think about it; as a spectrum unfolding, a patchwork along the way. The meeting point. Even the horizon knows its boundaries, alignment,...

Distortion Destroyed

Distortion Destroyed Razor thin, invisible disconnect to reality, with coping mechanisms: detached, broken, and shattered dolls, with thumbprints: behind the watcher of loneliness: if only you could feel something? Here you’re standing up again, and this is how to let go of being reluctant to move another inch, half-smoked in the mirror. Imagery: confused, abused, introverted with second thought; then cut off in mid-sentence. Things are not as...

Sad Mug

SAD MUG When angels rise, there is a concern with the watcher of loneliness who has tasted everything we would know. A state that yearns for companionship. After an endless winter frost, it lingers into a lonely, indescribable, lifeless cry of the night. All alone, wrapped in black nylon, shades of the moonbeam, between the curtains; elegy goes the night. But for those murmuring angels, Less than a chant: shorter than an echo. We find no place...

Old Boys (2018), Film4, Writers Luke Ponte and Freddy Syborn, Director Toby MacDonald.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/old-boys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_adaptations_of_Cyrano_de_Bergerac Old Boys isn’t listed in the Wikipedia of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac. I vaguely recall the Gérard Depardieu version. Back in the nineties, the French leading actor was making the jump to Hollywood. That was before he started moaning about taxes and got a special dispensation from another lead man, Putin, which...

TJW

Jack has written to me to let me know that he's deleted his account. He's asked me to share with everyone his appreciation and thanks for everything, so I am!

Free Thought

FREE THOUGHT When the moment of truth awakens; All your hidden creativities, the innermost The essence of one being must express itself in a voice unleashed and Dispenses on the stage, among the Exceptional, that gentle reminder Hunch and someone else pays For your lunch. Never watching them. The world goes by. Kill your giants with a sense of purpose: rise to the occasion and find your truth, speak your truth, and live your Truth. The world is...

Leisure Composure

LEISURE COMPOSURE EMBRACE THIS FRAME OF MIND; AN INVITATION, TO EXPLORE THROUGH THE QUITE CORRIDORS; OF MEDITATION. ZEN AND NOW: WHERE SUDDEN. CLARITY EMERGES WHEN YOU DARE TO BELIEVE. BELIEVING IN STILLNESS, THE UNSEEN RHYTHM OF YOUR THOUGHTS. TIME BENDS, STRETCHES, AND SOFTENS: THIS IS OUR ZEN HOUR. HERE, SURROUNDED BY THE SERENITY OF A ZEN GARDEN, WHERE TIME AND MAGIC BECOMES A GENTLE HEALER. MUSHROOMS RISE AS FLYING SAUCERS. THIS IS WHERE...

C.J. Cooke (2023) A Haunting in the Arctic.

C.J.Cooke is a Creative Writing tutor at the University of Glasgow. We’re back to that debate about whether you can teach creative writing? No matter. I read the debut novel of a Creative Writing tutor from the same university a few years back. It was, as you’d expect, proficient but dead on the page. I doubted if she didn’t have a doctorate and credit in the bank of an esteemed University behind her, she wouldn’t have been picked out of the...

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