Travail
/I’m not much enthused about…
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…French is, work, arduously unpleasant work. The connection of unpleasant work with travel is easy to understand. The happiest of journeys has unhappy…
By K. L. Shipley
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In Praise Of...
/…are overviews of whatever is being generalized. Specifics are not useful until they’re recognized as part of a pattern. A pattern of similar, yet, disparate events produces the possibility…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreSequestered
/I recently turned 17. With the number…
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…said that there is a fine line between being alone and loneliness. One is filled with self-content, whereas the other a stark, constant reminder of the lack thereof. The former implies that your company is sought after only if I value it greater…
By Ishani Manvi
Read MoreHow Sophisticated
/Sophistication, even at its…
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…words, with strained relations. They are words often at odds with each other, but bound by lineage, nonetheless. The Greeks of the Classic Age had varying views of Sophia. For some, she was the goddess of wisdom. For others, it was…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreNever Enough To Do
/For Mom, being Mother…
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…was always busy at something. She would plunge headlong into whatever came her way. Not only was she busy, she kept my Father busier than he might have been otherwise. (Moms probably always keep Fathers busier than they might have been otherwise). She made…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreJust A Regular Guy
/He seemed like a nice guy…
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…average height, sort of sandy maybe light brown hair, plain clothes and shoes, never see him with a hat, I guess that’s about it”. “Anything else, friends…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Oneiric
/Why do we dream…
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…origin is from the Greek word for dreams: Oneiroi. The Greeks considered the Oneiroi as blood-relatives of Hypnos, or as we would say, sleep. Ancient Greeks typically thought of impulses…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMy Heart Has…
/It was just a gut feeling.
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…who have had heart transplants often get new memories that only the donor had before transplant. There are hundreds of recorded…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreMorning Light
/Every morning…
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…is a certain, quiet joy in the light of the morning. If it was only a matter of angle-of-incidence, then the light of the evening would be the same as the light of the morning. It is not. I wonder why? Perhaps it’s because the morning light signals…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreI'm Already Here
/Backgrounds change…
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…interviewed on the BBC. She had never been further than twenty miles from the place she was born. The interviewer asked if she regretted not traveling. She answered crisply, "Why would I travel; I'm already…
By K. L. Shipley
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