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

Venomous: snakes, spiders, sea creatures
Alligators, sharks, sea lamprey
H5N1 Bird Flu, Ebola, Lyme Disease
Poisonous: plants, frogs, mushrooms
Ice ages, dinosaur extinction, human evolution – and especially the "evolution" of the human brain, which went from pre-fire "intelligence" to the Big Bang theory in the "blink of an eye" (evolutionarily speaking)

// Monday, June 29, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Perfection is an illusion, and worse, a type of darkness.

Striving for it puts you on the path of madness; sadness; pain.

Stop thinking, and planning, and "intending to," and start doing.

// Saturday, June 27, 2015

Skyway 5: Welcome to My Day

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Updated 2019
Original version released 2015

Copyright 2015 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

Today's Tendril...

The legacy that you'll leave is the life that you live.

There are three things that last: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

Citation: The Catholic Comparative New Testament: Rheims New Testament, New American Bible, Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem Bible, New Jerusalem Bible, Good News Translation, Christian Community Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.

// Friday, June 26, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Detail and derail differ by a letter; a seemingly insignificant, little letter.

But it's the little things—the details—that matter.

Beware the details, for they may derail you.

// Thursday, June 25, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Arrogance is a boomerang.

Release at your own risk.

// Monday, June 22, 2015

Today's Tendril...

If compassion is a bridge, then pride is a wall.

// Sunday, June 21, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Having the couch all to yourself is wonderful.

Sharing the couch with loved ones is better.

// Saturday, June 20, 2015

Alive Awake Aware III

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Today's Tendril...

You make the ultimate sacrifice only once.

Then, you observe the result from either Heaven or Hell.

// Thursday, June 18, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Puberty, for some, arrives like clay being molded by the hands of an artist.

For most, however, puberty hits like a ton of bricks.

Twice.

Today's Tendril...

The camel doesn't have two humps.

It has one indentation.

// Monday, June 15, 2015

Today's Tendril...

What good is a grain of truth when it sits in the shadows of the weeds?

// Saturday, June 13, 2015

Said the...

      "Look at them swooning over their gadgets," said Levitt, an old-school demon that has observed (and interfered with) mankind's technological progress. "They place more faith in their apps than they do in their gods."

      "But isn't that a good thing," asked Janore, a junior demon and a relatively recent addition to the ranks of the earth-walkers.

      "Yes," replied Levitt, "but I do so miss the old days — when deception required exquisite subtlety, a bit of protracted patience, and a measure of ingenuity."

      "And now," asked a slightly confused Janore.

      "Now it only requires the crushing of digital confectionery, the long hours of simulated agriculture, or the promise of finding true love, or at least a hot date, to lure them in.

      "What challenge is there when pure compulsion has them rush to the trough like swine? How less sweet is the taste of victory when the meat is hunted for you and then served on a silver platter," said Levitt more to himself than to Janore.

      "Weakness in any form is to our benefit and all the better for the Master's balance sheet, is it not," asked Janore.

      "Yes, of course. Of course," said Levitt. "We are in...eternal service to keep the Master's balance sheet in the black. Deepest, darkest, black. By any and all means necessary.

      "Now let us find a party that is soaked in alcohol and see if we can orchestrate an embarrassing act that will be captured on video. If we play their cards right, the clip could wind up on one of those 'dumbest humans' television shows. That will surely please the Master."

      And into the night the demons flew, the winds of malice beneath their wings.

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.

// Thursday, June 11, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Uncertainty comes in two colors: blue or grey.

// Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Today's Tendril...

When you have corralled all of your doubt, and a deep breath restores your clarity of thought, is the mountain of work before you truly high? Or is your will just extremely low?

// Monday, June 08, 2015

Enigma 2: Merr

// Sunday, June 07, 2015

Today's Tendril...

The trouble with always flying under the radar is that no one cares when you land.

Or if you crash.

// Saturday, June 06, 2015

Today's Tendril...

Don't treat perseverance like a plague.

Treat it like a cure.

A cure for what plagues you.

// Thursday, June 04, 2015

Today's Tendril...

It's not the quality of a mistake that matters, but the quality of the correction.