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[halfcafhaibun]

When

I want, sometimes -- at moments like this --, to give up this throwing after words, even reading them, and go to a beach to be swallowed by the sound of the sea. Movement is hard when so many competing responsibilities and anxieties shout over my senses.

And in these times it is hard to move and hard to pray. But I must.

I have to make the attempt to walk into God’s presence, though my feet are cold and seem -- when the moments like this come -- frozen in place. I have to hope Christ, who knows all suffering, has not left me in the steam stifling, beast filled woods.

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Half-caf Haibun is a side blog for my CNF (creative nonfiction). Posted this little sore spot recently. Hope you will give it a look, and maybe a follow. Thanks all.

[halfcafhaibun]

motes and beams

The problem with the academic enlightened is that they cannot tell a mote from a beam. They see beams in the eyes of anyone unlike them, and demand their removal without getting close enough to examine the "flaw" thoroughly. They expect others to see their "specks" as diamond encrusted affectations, unaware that these logs are much like faults they want the unexamined to suddenly know how to shed. And they back their ideas up in papers and screeds with mote-blurred science and history.