Posts Tagged ‘Silence’
Japan Gifts Us an Ocean of Calm
Dec
05
Featured Letters | calm, japanese culture, nine countries, Silence, simplicity, surrender
Beneath the surrender of the long standing Japanese culture is a simplistic calm. They have long been known for simplicity, one that seems very abstract to the west, except with regard to popular culture as it pertains to commercialism. This notion has nothing to do with calm… (read the rest)
A Tethered View: Who Own’s Your Voice?
Sep
04
Anthologies | Life, Silence, Television, Time, Voice
Following others makes for a rough ride in life. When we abdicate the choices that we alone must decide to make we join the herd. Cattle are no different than humans in that respect. They are guided by a prolonged sense of instinct. When we allow others… (read the rest)
Was it something I Ate?
Aug
24
Impromptu Letters | Ask, Aura, Revive, Silence
Passed down from generation to generation, we receive all the necessary elements to survive and revive ourselves. The physical body evolves as does our outer body. But the number of people who take time to activate their outer body is astonishingly low to nonexistent on a day… (read the rest)
The Jubilant Day
Aug
21
Impromptu Letters | Day, Morning Glory, Silence, Squeaky Wheel, Voice
“What’s so jubilant about my day” many of you ask. Those words roll over like a tired trilogy, again, again and again. We tend to repeat what we don’t need and forget to say to ourselves what we do need. Senseless words are born out of desperation… (read the rest)
{Snipets} of a Lingering Childhood
Aug
02
Featured Letters | Childhood, reciprocity, Serenity, Silence, Vanderwater Park
My feet coax out a resilient calm. The splashing edge of Vanderwater Park greets me with the piercing eye of a child. Headlong I charge into the breeze as it clears the water’s edge. Welcome back she says, you were knee high to a grasshopper last we… (read the rest)