Death Faces, Our Psyche, Culture, And The World Around Us

The Many Faces of Death   Death is part of our psyche, a silent shadow on the subconscious.  We begin to age from the moment of conception cycling through this life from fetus to senectitude to grave. We are born to die. Our awareness of death builds as we live life through socialization in a literal sense, religion, mythology and

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Facing The Monsters

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:” Tolkien Fear is a powerful thing.  It can make you move mountains, or allow you to hide beneath them, or bury you.  I miss the ignorance of youth.  I miss when everything was

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It Should Have Rained Carnations

The sterile fresh scent of carnations permeated the air.  Reds, yellows, white, and red striped flowers danced starkly against the grayscale backdrop of my world. Feeling like I was in an old slow B-movie, I looked down at the lifeless body of my mother.  I wanted to scream this can’t be real.   She wouldn’t leave me.   I might have

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