Time is measured in meaning
Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see—and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not dema...
Everyone was harmless until you knew better.
Love wasn’t about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn’t about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn’t about hoping for safety. It was just— That purr.
It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, to get male attention. That would have to be the most pain...
Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be?
Each child she found was a molecule, a part of herself still remaining in the scary world she had left behind.
Are you trying to talk your way into my bed? she asked, her voice thick with emotion. No. His voice sounded warm. I’m trying to talk my way into your heart.
You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.
But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true peace is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One l...
After the economy collapsed following the mill closure, the townspeople apparently tried to find other ways to make money. The two-block main street has boarded-up signs for the Bead Store Emporium an...
Guess? Naomi sank into a chair. Jerome, she
She stopped by an empty field, the soil abandoned, gone to mustard weed and grass. Lush bundles of crimson clover lined the fence. At the far end was a cluster of trees. As always, her eyes sought mov...
Not everyone likes a ceiling, her mommy said. Some of us like the sky.
It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.
Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.
Outside a pale dawn threaded the sky with silver.
Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don't like it. Bu...
After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfi...
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