Category: Waypoints
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Waypoint 2.3: The Birth of Pleasure
“Who are you?” she asks. With an infinitely tender voice, the stranger replies: “That, I can never say. Nor do you need to know who I am — if you love me.” Night after night, he returns to this room — to her. And night after night, they make love in the moonless dark. Invariably,…
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Waypoint 2.2: Of Wings, Words, and Sacrificial Hearts
“Every time we speak one of these words, an ancient Nahuatl spirit is let loose to circle on the wind. Speech is a kind of resurrection.”
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Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View
From Chapter 2, “The Soul’s Ascent” “Expectations are the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today.” — Seneca The fresh fall air of mid-September — for fall does begin early at this elevation, now more than 9,000 feet above the Central Valley floor — was crisp, cool, and it grew slightly…
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Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not the Mountain
What is knowledge, really, but a certain something that works? Something woven from within, spun out spider-like, from the silken stuff of experience, stories, legends, and dreams?
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Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge
With delight, we watched our scientifically-inclined boy turn into Vulcan’s evangelical— a pint-sized prophet of sulfur and smoke.
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Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead
Ratatoskr, the trickster squirrel — a kind of mythic pundit — dashes between the world-tree’s top and bottom, stirring chaos.
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Waypoint 1.1: Vulcan’s Evangelist
Some of us pause to wonder what heated nightmare it was that moved the mad god-emperor Caligula to invite the moon into his own amorous bed.
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