The Machine in the Ghost

05Jan10

The Machine in the Ghost

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Tags: Fiction, Modern Life, Pessimism, Philosophy, Sprituality, Tao, Thoughts, Truth, Wordless, words

Brief Thought #38

05Jan10

“It was only after we learned to tell stories that the concept of ‘true’ and ‘false’ were invented, setting the stage for authors, poets and other tellers of tall tales.” – Kenneth O’Sirus

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Tags: Bagels, communication, Fiction, Intention, Modern Life, Pessimism, Philosophy, talk, Thoughts, Trust, Truth, Very Brief Thought, words

Words We Need #1

04Jan10

Lightmares: The unpleasant realities that face us when we are awake.

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Tags: Modern Life, Pessimism, Thoughts, words, wounded

Brief Thought #37

03Jan10

Love is the ability to look into another, as through the eyes of God, to see beneath the roughness of their exterior, into the core of who they might be – their capabilities, not their achievements.

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Tags: God, Intention, Love, Philosophy, Sprituality, Thoughts, Trust, Truth, Very Brief Thought

Brief Thought #36

03Jan10

“Our stories are not the same, memories differ and hopes diverge, and so the most we can do is enjoy those times when our stories move, briefly or not, hand in hand.” – Kenneth O’Sirus

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Tags: communication, Modern Life, Moments, Philosophy, Sprituality, Thoughts, Truth

Brief Thought #35

02Jan10

We are here, in the World, to create meaning on the canvas of our lives, dolloping on globs of metaphor with the pallet knife of our words, our stories.

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Tags: Art, Fiction, Intention, Modern Life, Moments, Philosophy, Responsibility, Sprituality, Thoughts, Truth, Very Brief Thought, words

A Short, But Complete, Tale of Patience

01Jan10

I have been experimenting with something I call nano-fiction – a complete short story told in one sentence. This is an example.

The phone rang but he did not answer because he had fallen – flowed really – from the chair before ending on the floor, a quivering mass of protoplasmic goo patiently waiting for your call.

© B. W. Reed (Friday, November 13^th, 2009)

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Tags: Action, communication, Cream Cheese, Modern Life, Nano-fiction, optimism, Wordless

A Short, But Complete, Sisyphean Tale of Dreams

30Dec09

I have been experimenting with something I call nano-fiction – a complete short story told in one sentence. This is an example.

Awakening, setting his feet firmly on the stability of the concrete floor, he sets about his daily chore of scouring and polishing away the cutting edges and stabbing points, all that was left behind of his troubled dreams; as always, he will finish that night, exhausted, just in time to dream again.

© B. W. Reed (December 30^th, 2009)

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Tags: Dreams, hiding, Modern Life, Pessimism, Philosophy, Thoughts

Brief Thought #34

29Dec09

I grow weary of all this talk about the end of the world – as we have or haven’t known it – and just wished that it would hurry up, end, and then we can get on with our lives.

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Tags: Bagels, Cream Cheese, Depression, God, Modern Life, optimism, Peace, Pessimism, Philosophy, Sillyness, talk, Thoughts, Truth

Facing My Inner Demon

29Dec09

Meeting My Inner Demon

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Tags: Art, Depression, hiding, Modern Life, Pessimism, Thoughts, Wordless