K. L. Shipley
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…are two inscriptions on the walls of the Temple at Delphi: Know Thyself; and Nothing in Excess. They were inscribed there some twenty-five hundred years ago. These two aphorisms were wise…
By K. L. Shipley
I’ve loyally kept my …
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… remembering seems as much dream as memory. I was four years old. That probably accounts for the haze. We were on a picnic; Dad, Mom, me, and Uncle Gordan. I remember the spindly grill being taken from the trunk …
By K. L. Shipley
Loyalty is as loyalty does.
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…like Love, BFF, and other declarations of commitment have a season. Nothing on this earth is forever, no matter how much we wish it were otherwise. Passions flair, passions fade. The Sun rises, the Sun sets. Change is the only…
By K. L. Shipley
Dark unknowing that happens…
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…if he could, he wouldn't. Wild things don't discuss what they do in the wild. He returns by morning light. Matted fur, fatigue, and traces of blood, betray shadowy adventures known only to himself. Better not to…
By K. L. Shipley
Supernatural is not the…
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…,why does He allow the meanness and horrors of this world to exist? It's an old question. Satan knows the answer. He prefers humans remain in the dark. Satan's preference is made easier when humans think of him as mythical. All predators manage better when the prey doesn't know…
By K. L. Shipley
There are few works of Great Cinema. Those few make up for all the rest.
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…thousand fathers, all of them labored at nearly the same time to create the illusion of pictures moving. In the last part of the nineteenth century the…
By K. L. Shipley