As I have painstakingly tried to impart to my gentle readers in many prior postings, there are no absolutes. There is good and bad mixed into everything. For all the darkness that Black Sorcery brings, there is also a light and good side to Viet Sorcery. This is the side that allows the Sorcerer to... Continue Reading →
We Have Traveled this Way Before
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. We have traveled this way before and there is much to be learned. ~ Carl Sagan
It's been a couple of years now, since I started working with clay. Originally, it was just to have something fun to do with a very good friend who owns a small clay studio, but lately, it's gotten a life of its own. This was suppose to have been a clay sculpture of a very... Continue Reading →
***Note: I was having a bit of trouble trying to find a good spot for the words, because although this photo has plenty of dark, relatively star-free areas, the words didn't seem to quite fit anywhere, and I was randomly moving it around, hoping that it would find a nice comfortable spot to be placed.... Continue Reading →
The Voice of Mother Earth
At the quantum level, we are all nothing but photons of light. Everything is nothing but photons of light. This includes not just humans, but animals, plants, bacteria, virii. It also includes minerals, metals, water, and the air swirling into and around that body of minerals, metals, and water. What makes the human grouping of... Continue Reading →
Hello Out There!
I have always wanted to say hi to you. Yes you! I don't know what you look like, and I don't know what you think of us lower level life forms, but I have no fear of your supposed 'strange' features and I have no fear of you. If you ever get the chance to... Continue Reading →
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake
Black Sorcery and Ngải Plant (cont…)
Ngải is a poisonous family of perennial flowering plants, growing from creeping rhizomes or, in drier climates, from bulbs. They have long, erect flowering stems which may be simple or branched, solid or hollow, and flattened or have a circular cross-section. The rhizomatous species usually have 3–10 basal sword-shaped leaves growing in dense clumps. The... Continue Reading →
Do NOT Do Unto Others
The Golden Rule is very simple. Do not do unto others what you would not want done to you. It requires very little explanation. There is nothing difficult about this concept at all, except of course, in the observance of the principle. Unfortunately, over the years, it has been changed by well-meaning people who like... Continue Reading →
Zhuangzi and the Butterfly
Zhuangzi was a Taoist sage who lived during the 4th century BCE. His butterfly dream poem is among the most famous passages in ancient Chinese literature. In this poem, he writes about a dream that he had of being a butterfly, flying about enjoying itself. It did not know that it was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he... Continue Reading →
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