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April 28, 2016
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April 12, 2016
Seventh Morning
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“Every god was invented by an atheist, you know.”
She had said it as casually as one might remind one’s spouse that the post office was closed on Sundays. He lowered his newspaper. She turned from studying the cathedral across the plaza to signal the waiter for more coffee. Her hair was lighter in the morning sun, the highlights in the curls redder.
“Every god, you think?” he asked, his gaze coming to rest on her lips.
“Of course. Don’t you think so?”
“I hadn’t considered the possibil...
April 11, 2016
Protected: Chapter 11
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Happy Monday?
If someone frowns when you wish them a “Happy Monday,” it might not be the “happy” part to which they object.
The English noun Monday is rooted in an old Germanic term, which in turn is an interpretation of the pagan, pre-Christian Latinlunae dies (“day of the moon”).
“Jewish and Christian traditions place Sunday as the first day of the week,and Monday is thus the second day of the week. Quakers traditionally refer to Monday as “Second Day,” eschewing the pagan origin of the English name “Mon...
April 10, 2016
April 4, 2016
A very special fountain . . .
It was hardly the largest or most ornate fountain she had ever seen, and she had seen many in her travels, yet the more closely she approached, the more captivated she became. Its lower tier was composed of four remarkably lifelike elephants, facing the four winds, water spouting from their trunks, each creature captured in its own motion and mood. The southerly elephant was stomping in agitation, trunk cocked high and to the side. The easterly animal was b...
April 1, 2016
Chapter 10
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Idolatry Part II: A NEW EDEN Chapter 10The next morning, Paige awoke fully energized and focused. After a hot shower followed by cold, she retrieved a zipped bag from an internal pocket of her suitcase. Selecting a wig of long brown hair, she returned the curly blond wig and the mid-length auburn wig to the bag, and returned the bag to the pocket. From her makeup kit, she selected a sm...
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February 19, 2016
Chapter 9
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Idolatry Part II: A NEW EDEN Chapter 9It was Tuesday morning. Aaron stood at the window of his office, looking out over the valley, having just spent an hour on a conference call with little more to show for it than two pages of handwritten notes. His father and Joseph Reisenberg had been on the call for the first twenty minutes before leaving the details to Aaron and one of the law firm...
February 14, 2016
For Valentine’s
For My Softest One
For my softest one, in a hammock of satin,
A bed of rose petals on pillows of mink.
So lightly you lie, a suspended sonata,
In lines of fine ivory and islets of pink.
Hands hollow with hunger, my fingers would follow
Each lift to its fall, each peak to its draw.
To bruise or to break I would not, yet I think
That I must, as I live, partake as I give—
Eyes careless and blue beneath cumulus climbing,
Hair tumbled and free, framing all my dream fair.
I trace your terrain, hand...
