musings By Crystal
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Part Two: The Mirror That Did Not Leave
series: Mirror, Mirror Reconsidered A Note for the Reader (Zwischenraum) the in-between space What follows is a short series written in two registers. One speaks to the mind —...
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Part One: The Mirror That Did Not Ask Us to Disappear
series: Mirror, Mirror Reconsidered A Note for the Reader (Lingua Franca) What follows is a short series written in two languages. One speaks to the mind — drawing from...
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A Sacred Pause
Verse Before the Story This is not a skimmable piece. It is a threshold text. And thresholds always lose those who are not ready to cross. If this is...
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For the Relationship We Have Never Had a Name For
There is a kind of relationship we are never taught how to name. It is not friendship. It is not family. It is not romance. And yet—it changes us....
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BEING Part II – White Horses
Being ~ Haecceity (Part Two: An Artist’s Insight into Holy Orders) There is a truth beneath this poem that reveals itself not through time, but through depth: the distinction...
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At the Edge
Light in the Deep a finisterre reflection - where ground turns to ocean There was a time when air felt like a shoreline I could not reach. Days when...
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The Season That Taught Me Silence
a season of unmaking and re-forming There are seasons in a life when the soul pulls us below the surface — not to drown us, but to teach us...
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BEING – Part I (Holy Orders)
Being (Holy Orders) ~ While Not Known february 2020 — written about the sea & me, while in pensacola with The Coastline Symphony: Seven Movements a liturgy of sea,...
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Free Diver as Metaphor of my Unfolding Narrative
Opus Interiorem Latin for: Inner Work Inner work—though deeply personal—is not necessarily private. Healing needs solitude, yes, but it is also strengthened by the presence of others who can...
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There is No Way ~ Except to Stay ~ Present
non est ita nisi ut maneat ~Latin For~ There is No Way ~ Except to Stay ~ Present The Sequel The Power of Staying In and With The Conversation...