We are a being seeking shape. The energy of the world – or the shape created by all our interacting energies, can force shape on us by defining the space in which we can exist. If we are passive, we will be conforming in nature, shaped by outside forces. But if the shape allowed, differs …
Author Archives: Salatheel
The compassion of dreams
Fear: the master of illusion and delusion. When you turn round to face him, he dissolves in such unexpected ways. There was a hiatus in the violence – in fact it was a permanent stoppage, but I couldn’t know that at the time. I had knelt on the carpet in the front room and shouted …
Don’t linger on the event horizon
Abuse in life is not something that you get over – it is something that you dilute. It is ever present with you. You cannot leave it behind, you can only accept it and allow it. It is a black hole in the universe of yourself, but it does not devour your universe, it is …
A Foreign Land
When I look back, I do not recognise myself. The young woman is a foreign land, she moves among mountains in dark gorges unknown in my open landscape. In what way am I her? What connects us? I do not identify with her, perhaps because I do not choose to. Far easier to identify and …
The Phone Call
Memory may iron out the pain, giving things a uniform blandness, but somewhere within, the capacity to relive exists to bring back the past with a lucidity that can overwhelm and transport you back into itself. There was a phone call, seven years after the last time I was punched. I am standing at the …
An Introduction
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I find myself surprised by joy, and looking back at some of the bleakness in my life, I am musing on how it has happened. I found that I was writing pieces with no intended purpose, and, wondering what to do with them, a blog came to …
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