Every single cell in your body feels as if it will explode. Your heart beats faster than seems possible. There is at once a feeling that you are falling from a great height combined with the sensation that you are being hurtled through thin air in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Your shoulders tighten [...]
Durability |ˌd(y)o͝orəˈbilitē| noun the ability to withstand wear, pressure, or damage. Two years ago, I read One Square Inch of Silence by George Hempton. I wrote a rather critical reaction to the book on this blog. One of Hempton’s arguments is that we no longer hear our footsteps when we walk, and he attributes this [...]
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ~Anton Chekhov Powerful words and excellent advice from a dead Russian writer. Too often, laziness takes over and my flat sentences leave you with only a blurred outline of the story. I rush through the post, leaving out grains [...]
Does everything happen for a reason? Are you kidding me? Anyone why says this and means it is fooling themselves. They are trying to account for the fact that we have absolutely no control over ourselves or the world around us. We crave control, but in the end, life is completely random. People die for [...]