In Silent Passage - Text and Visual Art by Chris DeRobertis (Dero)

// Thursday, February 26, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Rituals. Habits.

Foci. Blinders.

Channels. Rabbit holes.

Context is a perception built with truths and lies.

// Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Today's Tendril...

The best "dark cloud with a silver lining" is the one above your head.

// Tuesday, February 24, 2015

// Monday, February 23, 2015

// Sunday, February 22, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Few go the extra mile.

Most go the extra foot.

// Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Just because it is small, does not make it insignificant.

Just because it is large, does not make it grand.

Just because it is different, does not make it good.

Just because it is the same, does not make it bad.

Just because it is old, does not make it classic.

Just because it is new, does not make it {special | cutting edge | the cusp of the future}.

View "it" in the context of the ever present now, not in the heaven of the idealized or the hell of the feared.

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

// Monday, February 16, 2015

Lenis Boq

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Today's Tendril...

What's the trouble with Little League baseball?

The big league mouths of the spectators.

// Monday, February 09, 2015

Skyway 4: As Seen in the Mind's Eye

// Sunday, February 08, 2015

Hello, World

Hello, fish in a bowl.

What do I look like to you?

Hello, ants on some plants.

Do you even know that I'm near?

Hello, big, black crow.

Are you some kind of portent?

Hello, world.

What questions will you inspire today?
And where will the answers be {thought, sought, learned, gleaned, harvested, found}?

// Saturday, February 07, 2015

Characters Within (Interis Dieagolis) 3

"Do what you think is right, but don't bore me with the details," said Pride to Conscience.

Conscience replied, "But it's the details that make the fall worth the trip."

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

This text composition is a work of fiction. Names, places, institutions, events, incidents, characters, persons, locations, contexts, scenes, scenarios, symbols, glyphs, iconography, and/or organizations either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Full Creative Writing Disclaimer.

// Sunday, February 01, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Believe in the CAN, not the CAN'T, but also be honest in what you DO, so that you don't regret what you've DONE.

// Thursday, January 29, 2015

Today's Tendril...

To be absent-minded now and then is human.

To be absent-hearted is not.

// Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Today's Tendril...

What's the Achilles heel of decision making?

Too many options
Letting "fate" decide
Full throttle impulse
Vacillating
Pro-cras-ti-na-tion
All of the above

// Sunday, January 25, 2015

Petroglyph LG29B

This is a digitally enhanced reproduction of a petroglyph found in the Lake George region of upstate New York (USA).

Archaeologists estimate that the rock outcropping on which the petroglyph appears to be at least one thousand years old.

The center image measures slightly over ten feet in length and is referred to in regional lore as ogisar aghcon, which is likely an anglicized derivation of the Native American words otsistah otkon (star spirit).

This visual-and-text composition is a work of fiction. Names, places, institutions, events, incidents, characters, persons, locations, contexts, scenes, scenarios, symbols, glyphs, iconography, and/or organizations either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Full Creative Writing Disclaimer.

// Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Love is a challenge that many take, but only a few are willing to see it through 'til death do us part.

Alternate Version

Love is a challenge that many take, but only a few are willing to see it through to the bitter end.

// Sunday, January 18, 2015

Said the...

     "We all have dark secrets, Monroe. Dark secrets that should never see the light of day, else we will become ruined, humiliated, and, ultimately, exiled," said Alsiendo, a one-time aspirant of Heaven's guard, but now nothing more than a twisted and bitter trainer of demons.

     "Dark secrets like commitment, integrity, and compassion," asked Monroe, a fledgling tempter of souls.

     "Yes," replied Alsiendo, through sharp, gritted teeth. "And especially compassion."

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

Today's Tendril...

There comes a time when all dreams must die and pass into the realm of the forgotten.

This is the way of all things.

Even dream things.

In this regard, life is quite black and white, because the Universe does not function, nor unfold, in infinite shades of gray.

// Saturday, January 17, 2015

Alive, Awake, Aware II

Alive, awake, and aware,
      With a crescent moon for a lounge chair.

Tranquility and sentience are sublime,
      When turning chaos to order,
            One tendril at a time.

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

Today's Tendril...

Better to grab Destiny by the family jewels, before it grabs you.

// Monday, January 12, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Readme First: Keep your theology off my soul.

// Sunday, January 11, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Make a difference in your own life
      one steppingstone,
            one lily pad,
                  and one grain of sand
                        at a time.

// Saturday, January 10, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Figures, forms, and thin lines.
      The tendrils that wrap and wind.

Soliloquies?
      They satisfy, mentally.

So, too,
      Solitary musings.

Decidedly elegant?
      A future tense.

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

// Friday, January 09, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Decisions based on accumulated, aggregated, and distilled data are often undermined by the human element.

// Thursday, January 08, 2015

Today's Tendril...

When you pray, keep your head out of the clouds.

// Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Today's Tendril...

A blank piece of paper is an opportunity, not an abyss.

// Monday, January 05, 2015

A New Hope

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// Sunday, January 04, 2015

Today's Tendril...

No demon ever exorcised itself.

// Thursday, January 01, 2015

Said the...

     Said the Devil to his minions on New Year's Eve, "My resolutions for the coming year are threefold: One - cause irreconcilable spiritual schisms. Two – further propagate the notion that I am either just a metaphor (a convenient container to hold the evils of the world), or simply superstitious nonsense (suitable only for the unenlightened or the downtrodden). And three - above all else, continue to lead others to love less and rage more."

     The crowd went wild.

     Then the clock struck midnight and all fell silent.

     At the sixth stroke, the Devil began to chuckle.

Companion Today's Tendril...

The worst New Year's Resolution ever: Love less, rage more.

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Today's Tendril...

What's worse — a Thursday that feels like a Sunday, or a Monday that feels like a Friday?