salt – radical druid

Salt of the Earth

Posted on July 28, 2006 by John

Imagine a person made completely out of salt. If that person chooses to be immersed in the ocean, their very being is absorbed by the sea. Once their head is beneath the waves, no distinction can be made between their now dissolved form and the depths into which they have sojourned. Not even the ocean […]

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A Grain of Salt

Posted on December 13, 2004 by John

When grandma fried the eggs, she used the salt so liberally its savor burnt the tongue; and so my father grew to hate the taste, eschewing through his life their bitter edge. It seems to me this metaphor applies to nuggets gleaned by some religious sects; when taken from their source, the sea, in part, […]

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