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Folly’s Promenade
What folly perpetrated in my youth, before thoughts of mortality began to permeate my eager thirst for truth and close the width of my attention span, has wrought its retribution over time and haunts me on occasion? What old song … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, cosmology, folly, karma, pride, retribution, wholeness, youth
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Friday the Thirteenth
Are you afraid the universe might some be conspiring, that the unseen, neglected soul of the whole world is tiring of folks whose hands say gimme while their mouths say much obliged, all the while with backs too stiff to … Continue reading
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Tagged debts, gratitude, greed, karma, responsibility, retribution, superstition
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