Tag Archives: Musings

Life and Death

Posted on April 6, 2011 by The Survivor Chronicles

Tonight I think of how death teaches us how to live — crocheted in recent family mortalities nestled in screams cupping answers to live by encased with mirrors as reminders to enjoy simple pleasures. Or maybe it’s the Buddhist book … Continue reading →

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Primal Separation

Posted on April 4, 2011 by The Survivor Chronicles

The older I get, the more I find that my fears have shifted.  I am not apprehensive or anxious over my own death — nor am I blithely reconciled to it either — but I recognize that the ultimate fear … Continue reading →

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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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Dream Weaver

Posted on October 2, 2010 by The Survivor Chronicles

My quilt is weaving dreams for me looming tales from random threads – yellows are the sunny days and sickly smells of night; blues are bruises; greens are hope; reds will underline the loss of sense while pinks replay the … Continue reading →

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