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July 7, 2020

Come out

let the cloudsbounce offof my coffee the black birdsblast chilling nightmares in the grass the rotten woodshudders in the garden the yard can’t comeout to play

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July 6, 2020

Light the world

This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook’s and got a good joint of meat, and my wife and I dined...

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July 6, 2020

The Sparrow

I’m a sucker for the broken and the beautiful. Imet you on a random Tuesday. You said hi orsomething like that, but all I could see were your lips. Lips that spoke in code; lips of imagined lustlips begging and pleading for me to linger longerlips pouting and preening, a...

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July 5, 2020

Still working on the groove

I didn’t blog as much as wanted to this week. My notebook is full of scribbles, but I haven’t digested them yet. Nor I have I edited all of the photos, but here a few from mu Batsford walk and my wanderings around the paths that lead out from my...

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July 2, 2020

no glory

so i lay thereplaying with splintersin the late afternoon the angels of paradise,hidden in the mysteryof my days leaningon worn-out wings, sang to me sticks lie broken,dead leaves gather dust,i am homesick herein the ashes all i wanted wasglory, found onlystrange sadness instead

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July 1, 2020

More self-reliance, please

Watched Black Summer on Netflix. The only thing it has going for itself is the zombies. They have more character than the humans we are meant to care about. Black Summer is the prequel spinoff of Z Nation. If I had known that beforehand, I would never have started watching...

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June 30, 2020

Re-inventing myself

“Like the legend of the phoenix, all ends with beginnings” – Daft Punk This is my first entry on the new soulcruzer site. I am not new to blogging. I’ve been in the game since 2004. My most consistent trait as a blogger has been experimentation. If you’ve been a...

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June 16, 2020

Playing with the imagination for personal growth

Fired off episode 3 of the new podcast series I’ve been working on with Naomi. We’re beginning to find our natural cadence and rhythm as co-hosts. The podcast too is beginning to morph into what I believe it’s destined to be, which is ostensibly The Journey: The Wisdom Experience Podcast...

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June 10, 2020

Zombied out on fear – #AudioMo Day 10

music from @zoltandekany Zombied out on fearmy friends gave me a medal for digginga hole with my bare hands and walkingon water like the messiah when she was lonelyand thirsty for politicians, generals and reporters locking and loading the sign of the cross gaveme goosebumps and butterflies like before a...

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June 9, 2020

Man, myth, and magic

I spent most of today researching the idea of the mythic imagination. It’s the topic of our podcast on Wednesday. It’s an area that has long fascinated me. As a boy, I grew up reading heroic fantasy novels, comics, and history. I loved epic stories of good versus evil, the...

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June 2, 2020

It’s worse than that, he’s dead Jim! #AudioMo Day 2

You may have caught wind online that I’m participating in the 30 Day audio challenge known as #AudioMo where you post a piece of audio every day during the month of June. If you missed yesterday’s audio you can listen here. As I’m writing this, it’s Tuesday, but lord knows...

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June 1, 2020

Hello #Audiomo

It’s that time of the year again where hundreds of audio fiends descend upon the Internet to share audio of all kinds. That’s right, it’s #AudioMo 2020 let the recordings begin!

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