Tag Archives: Inspiration

Survivor

Posted on November 1, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

The multiple troubles of man, my brother, like slander and pain, amaze you? Consider the heart which holds them all in strangeness, and doesn’t break. Shmuel HaNagid, Hebrew poet of Muslim Spain (993-1056) I am Yeats according to Auden. For … Continue reading →

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The impossible

Posted on October 29, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

At the edges of the day light hesitates as if to respect our dreaming shy until it meets the heat of our morning eyes   Our embrace binds us and the tender dawn binds the air in wispy zephyrs that … Continue reading →

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My Journey to Me

Posted on August 20, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

I came to her a mess of snot and tears. My light was barely visible beneath the thick crusty muck of evil that had been smeared upon me. I huddled in the corner curled inward protecting that tiny flame. I … Continue reading →

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Buddha

Posted on May 22, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

“The dead we can imagine to be anything at all.” Ann Patchett, Bel Canto He sits cross-legged in a tree deep in concentration, the way he would sit on the floor of his room leaning against the bed doing homework, … Continue reading →

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