And so You incubate,And learn to crawl,So we may one day take to the stars. Constellations in a fractal kaleidoscope,Each more significant than the whole,Expanding Infinitely and Infinitely magnificent,For Him to behold.And to behold Him. You are the egg,The seed.And...
You should understand, I like my reality this wayIt is simple and everything fits very nicelyIn those boxes and on those shelvesIt takes away the fear ofAll of risks and the grim unknown You must understand, I like reality this wayIf you move a single card, the entire...
A man gardens each morning. His knees ache and his arm isn’t as steady as it once was. But the routine brings him a feeling he can’t quite place. He stays out well past lunch time, to his wife’s contempt. A woman spends her mornings in the garden. Her back aches and...
Rhythmic shockwaves ripple through her.Thump. Thump. Thump.Suppress.And just like that the pounding in her head dulls to a hum.That voice. That grating voice. “Mom, it’s me. You’re alright.”Gentle hands pull the sewing needle from hers.But these days she resembles the...
I’ve put my soul in a box and sent it West. Past the magnificent Appalachian forests. Across the great rolling Midwest plains. Over the vast towering Rockies. Through the bone dry deserts of the Southwest. All tethered up in twine, wrapped a thousand layers thick, the...
“The deer who hesitates will not meet Winter’s bite. And the deer who waits will be left behind, never to see the first rays of Spring.” It’s too much to process for our young doe. The herd has already crossed The Great Divider, save for Mother. Mother has helped her...
I will be sunset soon.The super-mesolimbic (SML) structure was first identified by geneticists in the mid-21st century. Early CRISPR trials for increasing neural gray matter consistently produced a malformed mesolimbic pathway. Animal subjects with this defect were...
When the Soviets threatened nuclear strikes against every major city in the United States, we did not build a defense system. We did not attack or negotiate. We didn't even build an arsenal. We built a single bomb - aimed at the core of the Earth. The press of a...
“Uhh yeah, I’ll have the... coffee please.”“How would you like your coffee, sir?”“Umm, I’ll just have it uh, plain... Thank you.”I felt the next three people in line cringing, and honestly I couldn’t blame them. I was taking a girl out on a date to get coffee, and I...