As if destiny ridicules my desire to belong, it also has brought to my attention a brotherhood of painters who had their own doctrine and found their own group willing to push an identity. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a small group of painters and writers wanting to dedicate their craft ...
“Okay I lied. I was dreaming about what I saw. But, as she said, I have my own destiny. I don’t have to seek this girl out.” But little did Edgar know, that life doesn’t always pan out the way we wish. Sometimes it gives us a little nudge. Or in some cases, a big p...
Version 1.0 ofThe Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheeverwas written in 1994, just afterSplendid(my first novel) was bought for publication. For various reasons, it never quite made it onto the publishing schedule, but I always thought it was the best of my early books, so I kept waiting ...
In the case of the canoe, a large cottonwood fell at a public campsite that I help manage as president of the Jefferson River Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Churchill arrived in spring ready to start carving, but declared that the log wasn’t quite big enough. ...
A pork pie selection: Terry Kearney, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons A few years ago, I went with Liz to another funeral in Lytham. I felt distinctly out of place, an intruder even, as I did not know either the deceased or his family. There was however, a rather nice buffet which, unde...
(uttered in such a way that even Eloise knew what it meant) she made a decision. It was time to take her life into her own hands, time to control her destiny, rather than attending ball after ball in the vain hope that the perfect man would suddenly materialize before her, never ...
Horary results, as what I find with astrology (in general), are destiny based. So while you might have a small amount of free will — I believe that freewill is finite. If astrology wasn’t destiny based, I think the whole concept of it — would collapse. As a side note: I took ...
Michael Dregni, author ofDjango: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend . ___ . Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Han...
For my readers of my website I do post on my IG account@ideaswithinkregularly and if you have the IG you can check it out as well. Thank you! Share this: I write not because I can, But rather because I cannot Leave the words inside me, ...
Pounding my ears with violence Distortion Anger Hate You tell the truth only by accident Building a framework of deception To achieve your own ends So you thought your plans would work Your chasm of deception Would master me No way For I am a thinking reed in your hostile universe ...