Musings
At Firefly Horizons we encourage and support the sharing of experience and insights. Our Musings represent a library of thought and contemplation. We make these musings free to our patients and colleagues with the hope of provoking thoughts and images that stimulate reflection or resonance. We encourage all the members of our team to contribute freely to this library of reflective experience.
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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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The Temptation of Heaven
(Hear Audio file read by the author with music by Tim Swisher “Our Story” 7:02) “ In the end, we are all sentenced to get what we want. ”...
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Living in the shadow of the Unlived
(Hear Audio file read by the author with music by Tim Swisher “The Hours” 5:52) If you have lived long enough or experienced life deeply enough, you may find...
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Practicing Eternity
“ …time passes more quickly than man is able to live, and that life is terrible, because everything in it is necessarily doomed to extinction… ” -- Milan...
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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...