Author Archives: randomyriad

Doing the Lord’s Work in The New World

Posted on July 2, 2018 by randomyriad

  Given the choice I would rather go to hell. It can’t be worse than living with people who have no compassion. It starts with assuming that some people are less than human, but I still don’t understand why people … Continue reading →

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Old Songs Made New #1

Posted on June 24, 2018 by randomyriad

This one mesmerizes me in many ways. I have no idea what it means but it makes me drift into a previously undiscovered space in my mind.

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Incantations: The Magic of Reading Aloud

Posted on June 22, 2018 by randomyriad

      The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Lovecraft cover art) by Gervasio Gallardo (b. 1934) I have read this very strange novel to myself and once to my then 3 year son, who loved it when I read him anything. I have … Continue reading →

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Capturing Light: Investigations of Color in Words, Music and Images #5:

Posted on June 14, 2018 by randomyriad

June and Everything After More Than Enough BY MARGE PIERCY The first lily of June opens its red mouth.  All over the sand road where we walk  multiflora rose climbs trees cascading  white or pink blossoms, simple, intense  the scene drifting … Continue reading →

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Thoughts About Thinking Our Way Forward

Posted on June 11, 2018 by randomyriad

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of … Continue reading →

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