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About Me

A Renaissance bloke, living on the coast of Maine, musing upon life's fascinating mysteries and living a pilgrimage of trust on earth. Heavy thoughts at times, but from a lighthearted soul.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Kindred souls and friends. I love listening to people's stories; that is a gift each one of us has.
The Smalltown Poets
the ever heroic Electric Light Orchestra

My Blog

spring forward

I have a guide, and in his steps when travelers have trod, whether beneath was flinty rock, or yielding grassy sod, they cared not, but with force unspent, unmoved by pain, they onward ...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 05:04:00 GMT

erase

The labor, of course, is in the unrelenting struggle to banish the countless distracting thoughts that plague our minds and to restrain them beneath that cloud of forgetting. This is the suf...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 05:44:00 GMT

graphite ignite

Take this Mute mouth Broken tongue Now this Dark life Is shot through with light. ~ Suzanne Vega, Pilgrimage
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 18:22:00 GMT

depths

Pieces of coal, hewn from the deeps of the earth,Here in my hand, spectra of lights retain;Crystal on crystal knit, back in its birth-Sun meeting sun again.~ Huw Menai, Pieces of Coalformed from thi...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:47:00 GMT

olympians

Waiting at the airport on my suitcase,a girl traveling from Spainbecame my sudden friend,though I did not learn her name.And when the subway dimmeda stranger lit my way.This is the brotherhood of man...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:53:00 GMT

fine lines

When all is dark and dusty down the tracks; And all paths from exile have roadblockson all points saying no way out of here, go back to where you came from.  Only the thunder knowswhat drives a man...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:00 GMT

so fine

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Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:53:00 GMT

dart

Cease not in thine intent, but strike evermoreupon this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt you and your Godwith a sharp dart of longing love,and loathe for to think upon ought under God,and go not th...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:09:00 GMT

solace

Some winters are harder than others.We are going to take our camerasand look through at black trees with empty arms,and sled tracks wandering as we are.To see him, to see him happy.~ The Innocence M...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:20:00 GMT

un avenir de paix

Some are bearers of peace and trustin situations of crisis and conflict.They keep going even when trials or failuresweigh heavily on their shoulders.~ Brother Roger of Taizé, A Future of PeaceEver s...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:12:00 GMT