the strange word of pain and solace

2021-06-30 When pain is inevitable, how do we handle it? In recent years we heard more of sudden separation between loved ones, wherein one departed to a realm the other could not reach. The suddenness and the frequency of similar departures reached a point when even a hitherto calm hermit, somewhat perturbed, would let the …

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an accidental writer (2023 sequel): Resonance and echo motivation

Writing is lonely. What drives a writer to write? A guitar resting in a corner can play by itself to synchronize with several other guitars being played in the same room. I was told by a band member. Sound waves that are of equal frequency and phase add together to form a wave of larger …

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A sudden goodbye we never said

It was a time to say goodbye and we didn't know then. I never attended the annual reunion gathering of my former classmates from junior secondary school. I left that frontier oil and gas town, which later became a cosmopolitan municipality, many decades ago. I went back only once after many decades, and walked down …

the “reasons” why we do not celebrate together anymore

For at least a decade the traveler's heart has stopped assigning a significance or meaning (connected to relationship) to any festive season. It is not intentional. It is just a matter of circumstances. The rare occasions a festive celebration occurred was associated with the presence of kid(s). Non-celebration frees one up to do some other …

Accidental art and writing (a sequel): How does clarity motivate a reader? Resonance

Any serious writer will tell you what clarity really means. It means freedom from encumbrances-encumbrances such as, requiring everyone to be confined to pre-specified space, time, schedule, program, hoards of strange and illogical-irrational man-made rituals, sprouting "causes" which suddenly sprang out seemingly from nowhere like a thick veil of impenitrable fog onto the surface of …

an enchanted alumni night

an enchanted alumni night by Praise L Kate is glad she did not make it to that alumni night after all on that fateful night of reunion on 2017-5-17. This is the account of what really happened that night of the alumni dinner. After pausing a long while at the bridge watching the swiveling black …

a hermit-traveler’s snowy November 2019

20191122 Two years had passed since one November up a mountain lavishly painted with snow. It was a new experience for a hermit and yet a traveler in life for decades. The snow came just as notified through the weather forecast on the internet. Nothing really changed when it came and the locals above the …

Past squares #15. A traveler’s day including an orphanage outing.

taken on 2014-11-04 an orphanage I can remember that day. I was with several tourists. Someone wanted to see an orphanage and so we were brought there. It was part of the travel package. We saw the lake, the dam, fishermen, flowers at roadside, colorfully painted schools, a boy who drew a pair of glasses …

October Square challenge – Monday Past: a time in space (two haiku)

20160122 taken in a mining museum He: with time passing dear neither here or there I fear dare beyond this sphere She: do I ever dread time and sphere not me my dear firmly we shall bare 2021-10-11 PraiseWord Monday Past -the Life of B