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LATEST RAGES

Posted on September 3, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

ON MORMON FOUNDATIONS OF POLYGAMY:   When your religion is working for you anymore, don’t retrace your historical context, just change your moral code! Which is why I brought up Jan Brewer – here is an example of where legislation … Continue reading →

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Juxtaposition of Fear and Love

Posted on May 22, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Beneath an ocean of fear are the plunging depths of mantle and core — the root of all we are and that which clutches the mass of our being — the gravity of our ground, the Self. The causal forces … Continue reading →

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Love is the finest form of dying

Posted on March 25, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

There is a thin fine line between giving up on yourself and giving up on needing another…between striving for that spring green flexibility and tormenting ourselves when we bend in the slightest way, in the slightest breeze. The hollowing pain … Continue reading →

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Where Love Lives

Posted on March 18, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Love is such a nostalgic condition, a candle in a familiar window I suppose… filled with this, passion and angst to be home in safe and familiar currents.  Love, a condition where we find peace in the blurring of what … Continue reading →

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…LEX PARISMONIAE: MIDLIFE IN SOLILOQUY

Posted on March 15, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

My dear and clear friends, I find it ironic that the easiest can be so difficult. I heard a sojourner at the rail sigh and say into his glass of ale, “…this proclivity for circumlocution and periphrasis has been a … Continue reading →

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Nature Makes Us Ultimately Responsible

Posted on March 10, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

That perhaps our presence in the world is quite starkly a plaything belonging to our fundamental provenance. That happiness can be known through the joy of our being received, if only by a silent and benevolent godhead planet hurdling our … Continue reading →

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A Gold Dipped Metaphor

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were it not for a volcano exploding in Asia and shifting the earth for moment, I’d not have caught my balance on a cliffs edge in North America. So certain was I that plate tectonics was my guardian angel; and … Continue reading →

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Ode to the Conquerer of Great Distance and Time

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude:  As We Arrive Your love found me, as if two suns rose from the east and west at the same time.  Where their rays met would be indistinguishable, and why even understand it. What we feel in touch is … Continue reading →

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VALENTINES DAY DIALECTIC 2012

Posted on February 12, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Haecceity it is what is of what —  it is that of what isWe always break it down to surrendering to our destiny, be that our compulsions to roll with its uncertain and vicarious plan for ALL of us – … Continue reading →

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A Night in the Window

Posted on February 5, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Say that again,”  he said. Interrupting her sip of beer, she replied,   “mm – say what?”              “- Say whatever it was you said, because it made a perfect arc between our lips.”  She just smiled, looking over the top … Continue reading →

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