[The opening paragraph of Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald Hall, New York, 1976] Baseball is a country all to itself. It is an old country, like Ruritania, northwest of Bohemia and its seacoast. Steam locomotives puff across trestles and through tunnels. It is a wrong-end-of the-telescope country, like the landscape people […] Read more

Suddenly the most aggressive of the marshland birds appeared…a Crested Screamer. The Crested Screamer is remarkable for his strident cry and his skin which had thousands of tiny air sacs beneath the surface that increase its ability to float. Although his feet are not webbed, he struts effortlessly through the fields of water hyacinths like […] Read more

Suddenly the most aggressive of the marshland birds appeared…a Crested Screamer. The Crested Screamer is remarkable for his strident cry and his skin which had thousands of tiny air sacs beneath the surface that increase its ability to float. Although his feet are not webbed, he struts effortlessly through the fields of water hyacinths like […] Read more

Any desire of the heart is there for you to discover and manifest. Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Be precise about what you admire in someone and find that part in yourself. If you have the aspiration to be something, it’s because you have the potential to manifest what you are seeing […] Read more

You don’t understand! Why do you not believe me, when the signs of evil are all about you! Look at me… LOOK AT ME!! I am the only one who can save you… the only one who…who KNOWS how these creatures think…who KNOWS their weakness…. Why do you laugh as if I were a madman? […] Read more

Fourteen year-old Tom is walking along the lane thinking spring happens whether you’re paying attention or not; it happens beneath the snow, beyond the walls—spring happens while you dream—when Ruby Hornaday steps out from the weeds. She has a shriveled rubber hose coiled over her shoulder and a swim mask in one hand and a […] Read more

The deep sea, where nightmares are born. meet the lions mane jellyfish. With a Bell that can grow to a diameter of 8 feet, and tentacles over a hundred feet long, it’s highly unlikely that it is more afraid of you than vice versa […] Read more

I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish that I didn’t have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me, and heavier came each task. “Why doesn’t God help me?” I wondered. He answered, “You didn’t ask.” I wanted to see joy and beauty, but […] Read more

I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish that I didn’t have time to pray. Problems just tumbled about me, and heavier came each task. “Why doesn’t God help me?” I wondered. He answered, “You didn’t ask.” I wanted to see joy and beauty, but […] Read more