Paragraph: From The Nature of Melancholy
If Melancholy increases so far, that from the great Motion of the Liquid of the Brain, the Patient be thrown into a wild Fury, it is called madness. …
On C. S. Lewis : The Screwtape Letters V (Dinosaurs & Cockroaches)
C. S. Lewis, in the fifth letter of the Screwtape series, is concerned with war and its effect on faith. So I found myself standing akimbo, legs widely…
Autumn Diary: Give Me S Like Star, Sun, SAD!
It is arresting like colorful leaves flying to the ground, sadness not exactly unwanted, you know. Quietly palpable in the yawning morning, wavering nuances on the back of…
Poetry: From Nineteen Ancient (Chinese) Poems
From Nineteen Ancient Poems (Han Dynasty) 5 A tall tower in the northwest, tall as floating clouds, with patterned lattice windows and a pavilion up three flights of…
Observation: Two people on a sofa on a porch in the apartment directly across my window
So deep the summer night, lights in windows have long set, but on the porch across–– a hundred steps away?–– You two sit facing each other under soft…