Prelude to Revelation

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Today's Tendril...

Gray Thursday. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. The marketeers and commercial elves (goblins?) are working overtime. The holiday season has become yellow and green, as in the yellow of greed and the green of money. Faith. Hope. Love. That's what it's all about—lest we forget and become consumed with consumption.

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Today's Tendril...

Hashtag (#) — the new bulletin board. Who knew? Yea: #connectingpeopleplacesthingsonehashtagatatime Nay: #enoughwiththehashtagsalready

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Today's Tendril...

"Marginal success," "partial success," or "a little success" is just a failure with a really good PR team.

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Characters Within (Interis Dieagolis) 2

"Details are fickle things," said the perfectionist.

"Only to the obsessive and the compulsive," replied the free spirit.

"You're both wrong," said the pendulum.

"Would all of you please pipe down? I'm working here," said the hand that writes.

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Three Tendrils for Today

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Tweaked 2013.11.04

A Letter to Elanor

Loveliest Elanor,

The moments we shared at the Autumn Festival were the happiest of my life.

We talked. We ate. We laughed. We danced. You smiled. I melted. Time vanished.

It broke my heart to leave you before we enjoyed the last dance of the evening, but I could not be within sight of you when the Harvest Moon reached the highest point in the sky.

And it is not the sight of you that caused me to disappear, for I could stare into your beauty for a thousand lifetimes.

I left because I am not the man you believe me to be and I could not bear to have you see me as I really am.

If all goes as I have planned, then I will return to you on All Hallows' Eve and we will be together again and always.

If not, then know that I did everything that I could to escape Abbot's Cornfield, but that its magic was stronger than what I—a lowly scarecrow given human form for a day—could break.

And if I never return to you in flesh and blood, then I pray that this letter, and my spirit, find their way to you...as the crow flies.

Eternally yours,

Solan

 

About

I imagined the crow in my visual composition, "As the Crow Flies," carrying a message to someone.

"A Letter to Elanor" is that message.

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Hallo'd Lore

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About

Dark things from the hangman's tree and a warning; a mental carving that tried to scream—Happy Halloween!

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As the Crow Flies

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I Take My Leave

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Today's Tendril...

If your life is in constant need of a safety net, then you should reconsider your choice of activities and mental proclivities.

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Through the Dark

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Voiceless

Without words I am voiceless,
     And my eyes can only take the conversation so far.

And if only the hand on your cheek were the hand on your heart,
     Then my touch would speak in a tongue only lovers understand.

These words, this paper, are all that remains of a conversation that I thought would never know an end.

All is now still.

My words have no refrain.

I am voiceless—and still.

And still I carry on...without you.

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Three Tendrils on Epiphany

Epiphany is usually a light in the dark.

Every once in a while, it's a dark cloud with a silver lining.

 

Epiphany is one part "I" and one part "any," as in: The I of any moment can bring about life changes—for better or for worse.

 

Brevity does not always bring clarity.

Sometimes the epiphany comes at the end of a long and complex journey through the jungle of verbosity, where vines of reason twist and entwine, and a machete clears the clutter of incremental logic.

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Characters Within (Interis Dieagolis) 1

"I'm swimming in tears," said Regret.

"And well you should," said Conscience.

"I wasn't thinking, OK," snapped Regret.

"Sadly, you never do," quipped Conscience, a bit exasperated.

"Why is that? Why don't I take a breath or a pause and figure out how to be free from the grip of the here-and-now," said a demoralized Regret, with a clear indication that the question was rhetorical.

Nevertheless, Conscience replied, "You get that from the Impulse side of the family. That's why God included me as part of the human equation."

Conscience added, "If it helps, you may think of me as a ghost—the Ghost of Actions Past and Consequences Future."

"That doesn't help at all," sobbed Regret.

"Oh, it will. Trust me, it will. You just don't see it yet," said Conscience with a comforting smile.

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Today's Tendril...

Faith is not a fate, but a commitment. How you choose to live life determines your fate.

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Up Close and Personal 1: The Warmth Revealed (Visual Remix)

 

About

In celebration to the start of Fall (Autumn), 2013, in my neck of the woods, I completed a fitting visual remix (fueled by a warm cup of hot chocolate).

Original version published Monday, July 1, 2013, and available at insilentpassage.com: Up Close and Personal: The Warmth Revealed.

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Today's Tendril...

How do you find the perfect shade of blue? Wait for your mood to sour and it fill find you.

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Today's Tendril...

Leadership is spelled with an "I."

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Today's Tendril...

Rains, west, ungodly.

Flowers fold willingly.

Placid sadness grows.


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We Come in Peace

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About

If I had an alien Metal band, then this is what it would look like. (That's me in the middle.)

 

Soundtrack

• Ghost, Anup Sastry
• The Space Between, Intervals
• Epicloud (Deluxe Edition) (disc 2), Devin Townsend Project
• Plains of Oblivion, Jeff Loomis
• Engines of Creation, Joe Satriani
• Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head, Vol. 01, Celldweller

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Today's Tendril...

Even the sea of tranquility gets a storm now and then.

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Ibis Goliae Araneidae

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The Faces of Silence

The many "faces" of silence:

• As acquiescence and acceptance
• As a barrier
• As an act of dissention
• As punishment
• As a means to an end
• The mask of bewilderment
• A bed of feathers for introspection
• The opposite of "the squeaky wheel"
• The space between lovers when they have nothing left to say
• As dramatic...pause
• The medium for the voice of God

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Today's Tendril...

Terra forming is an arrogance of man.

Reshape to satisfy a vision (artistic or commercial matters not).

Fitting, then, that the earth reclaims man at the end: from dust to dust, the sequence goes unchanged.

Today's Tendril...

Human by design.
Fallible by nature.
Happy by choice.
Creativity—a blessing...and a danger.

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The Fact Remains

This new cat is good. Very good. Silent. Fast. Patient. Agile.

A perfect feline ninja.

Ah, but no matter how good the cat, and no matter how many cats the owners bring into the house, the fact remains: no flesh and blood kitty can ever catch a ghost mouse.

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Just for Fun 5: Sketchy (at Best)

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A doodle with wings.

A little pen-and-paper fun.

Sketchy, at best. 8^)

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The Great Machine

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About

Inspired by, and part homage to, the Book of Revelations and Firefox's "about:mozilla" Easter Egg.

Full title: "The Great Machine" - from The Book of Tendrils (The Lost Chapters)

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Today's Tendril... Perspective

      "Ah, to be young and naive again, instead of old and wise," said the oak tree to the acorn.

      "At least you're not in the shadow of someone else," replied the acorn.

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