Steve, Author at Firefly Horizons Under Hummingbird Skies

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March 31, 2019 By Steve Leave a Comment

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Halcyon: characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden—often used to describe an idyllic time in the past that is remembered as better than today

Life, unscripted, surprises me.

When is a halcyon memory born? I imagine we miss its birth and only come to recognize its existence as the energy it brings stimulates us? How often do we neglect the time in which we are living, longing for a future distant time where the projection of fulfillment resides like a mirage? What we need most is in the moment and how can we prepare for any moment before it arrives?

Provoking the Thought

January 12, 2019 By Steve 2 Comments

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Who is this scrivener that writes this esoteric discombobulation? What is he saying in this jumbled melee of words… What is it with his epexegetic discourse of terse and often exotic pontifications?

Oh, wait… I’m doing it again, aren’t I? Let’s try this once more…

Who is this guy who writes in an English language that is sometimes difficult to follow, often with words that are not commonly used by many of us, and in such short bursts of phrases that we have to read the explanations twice to understand the point?

I had a conversation with myself about this.

Malevolent Memory: Days of Tragedy and Grace

January 11, 2019 By Steve 2 Comments

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I do not despise these days,
though I have reason to do so.

I have become fully licensed in malevolent memory though the operative purpose of such an affliction is yet to be adequately vetted. The masochistic application for licensure was far too barbarous by my assessment. In 4 years I have moved 5 times, I have lost a son, a marriage, a career, a retirement; the modest material wealth I had established; all investments once thought to be innervations of heart and soul, now deferred to higher reason, which is to say, an inconsequential assignment of value.
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Radical Ambiguity

October 21, 2018 By Steve 4 Comments

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Revolution begins…

as a romantic idea embedded deep within the query of one’s soul and like all projections, we believe revolution takes place outside us. One inevitably discovers, though some never do, that its beginning and its end remain rooted inside us. Unfortunately, the projection tends to be too intoxicating to notice the subtlety.

The Efficacious Skill of Flirtation – Calling Forth the Muse

September 14, 2018 By Steve Leave a Comment

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To the lover and the visionary, It’s life as its being lived. Rumi – UZAYR

Contemporary Western society does not seem to give a fair representation to the art of flirtation. Stoic adherences to pious standards of conduct have shamed this craft of exploration, which received great approbation from the likes of Rumi, Rilke, and Socrates.

The Culling of The Muse

August 10, 2018 By Steve 1 Comment

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The horizon has always been before me, stretching out with a sustained potential. It offered a promise in a language now foreign to me, yet fluent as a youth. The invitation the horizon extended never waned, and while my fear refused its seduction, it never ceased its wooing.

Carl Jung described the Muse as the “passion that engrosses” us, Socrates interpreted the Muse as the initiator of performance, and Plato’s Ion might lead us to believe the Muse is in the desire of the reader or observer. My acquaintance with the Muse was ever forthcoming, yet I demurred with perennial resolve in demand of agendas that were never my own. When the Muse visits, we alone can be the tragic arbitrator of our longings demise.