A teardrop falls from my eye onto the book. I look up and discover that i am back in my room, tears streaming down my cheeks. I am not sure how the book got into my lap for i was...
Instead of feeling tired i feel refreshed. I inhale deeply, there is no smog, no stale air, just fresh and pure clean air filling my lungs. I reach for my chest and my hand rests upon a handmade necklace of...
Sam grabs our coats and my purse and keys. “I will tell you everything i saw at dinner. Come on, let us go out and get something to eat.” We leave the studio and head outside. The darkness of the...
The words in the Book begin to take on a more urgent perspective of the real world the author lives in. Instead of a continuous story, there are now only bits and pieces of memories and feelings. The carefully constructed...
Again it has been a long time since i have written here. And time grew dark and now the winter is over again and the world is anew. During the dark and cold and stormy months Rayne taught me lots...
I dial the number and bounce my head up and down to the rhythm of a song inside my head. I realize, that the song is the same one that Loki was playing on his double pipes. The phone connects...
“Shit,” i exclaim. I hate the taste of this toothpaste. But it was the cheapest brand out there and on my shoestring budget, it was all i could afford. Then again, i have never been quite able to stand the...
It has been awhile since i have written things down in this book. I am not sure how long it has been since Rayne and i have been apart. Since that one day on the hillside, just beyond our cave,...
It is a bit scary to think about how fast this is all happening. Too fast. Just the other day i was just an ordinary grad student working on my paper for Mayan mythology. Today, however, i have turned a...
She hands me the piece of paper. There is a painting done circa early 1900’s. A man and a woman stand wearing medieval clothes surrounded by a half-ring of trees. Small fireflies hover above them, giving the illusion that they...
The phone rings and i jump. I quickly put the purple ribbon back into the Book and set it down, darting off to get the receiver. In my haste to start reading more, i had forgotten to set the phone...
Rayne is pleased with my progress. He says that he can see a change already blossoming inside me. Today we decide to do something different. He feels it is time to take me on a hike. He refuses to tell...
It’s fun to watch Sam poor over the contents. Like me, she has the book sitting open in her lap. Her right arm lays across the book, turning the pages as her right arm sits curled around her neck; her...
The apartment front door visitor buzzer loudly goes off. I yelp as i was rudely awakened from my revelry. It’s been about an hour since i started reading, so that means Sam was late. Doh and i wanted to read...
Tis a new day, and a wonderfully sunny one at that. It is a beautiful, warm winter day here. And strangely, things are still blossoming. However, we do live in a rain forest and as such, the cold rain pours...
My mind turned on itself. Reaching my arm around the chair’s arm i fumble for the drawer in the nightstand. My body turns as i open the drawer and i search for something to mark my place. Post-its galore and...
Today I had my first experience with using my invocation pentagrams. I started at the right side of the star and moving upwards, always with a positive motion, always with perfect love and focused intent, drew the rest of the...
My heart still pounds as i stand outside of Lincoln. The Quad is filled with students walking into and out of the Student Center, chatting and laughing with one another. No one knows what i have just done. What HAVE...
“mommy...” And that is how the dream always ends. The feeling of my mother abandoning me or me being stolen away from my family and the place i call home. The dream is so vivid, scary enough that i always...