soul | soul
May.14.2013
The scent of hyacinth from the windowsill draws down into the pit of my belly and the core of my drained brain begins to lift to wake my senses. I’m standing by my eye into the soul of life and want to trap the scent of the flowers that trails out through a small opening.
It’s through this eye that...
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May.12.2013
Mom before polio
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
I opened the door and, as I braved the champaca fumes and tinkling wind chimes, I thought: fire the art director for crimes of cliché. It was way too...
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Apr.19.2013
Driving down the road, I peer over at the progress of the new retail building. A man on his hands and knees tends to the soil, where the grass and flowers will be. He has a garden pick in his hand, that I see as he raises it, before bringing it down to the earth.
I was transported in that instant...
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Apr.04.2013
I'm in a hurry and don't know why...
I was on a flight yesterday morning from Louisville to Sarasota to visit with clients. Sitting on the plane just before takeoff, I looked out the window at the massive wing reaching out on either side of the fuselage like a mighty eagle stretching its wings...
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Apr.02.2013
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT: Rose Chatfield-Taylor
HER INTERVIEWER: Anna De Koven
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Why not a medium? It should have been an obvious step long ago, when I was in my...
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Mar.24.2013
This morning while digging a trench around the back walk to keep the flood from getting into the house I was very upset that I would not be able to get to church for Palm Sunday services. I love the two Gospels of Luke that were read today, but three quarters of our yard was under water and...
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Feb.22.2013
"We searched high and low," the legend will go, "for someone who had lived a fairytale life."
Sometimes turning a creative problem on its head is the only thing that will get it unstuck. To finally get the story of my musical to flow, I let my muses convince me, a year ago, to fictionalize...
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Nov.27.2012
Closing the Cycle: Hear the Call by Valum Votan: Closer of the Cycle
The whole purpose of the evolution of life on Earth is for just this moment — the Closing of the Cycle …
We all live by a HIGHER SPIRITUAL CALLING. Most of us suffocate that calling by thinking we have to be normal or...
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Oct.17.2012
Worn out,
used up and hung out to dry.
My heart has been emptied,
My soul is a dry husk
I'm left gasping for the healing waters.
Lay me down in the sweet grass.
Gently bathe me, immerse me in your cool springs.
Cleanse me, fill me,
bring me back to life again.
© annettealaine-2012
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Sep.16.2012
The word "culture" and "cultivate" have the same root in Latin. Cicero wrote about "cultura animi," or the development of the spirit as one also develops fruits and grains through watering, nourishing, pruning and harvesting them.
The notion is that one, or a group, brings something...
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