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Thunder storms, blinding lights and soggy toast
2008-04-14 01:03:00 Well yeah. I was just sitting here, eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity. – Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)Putting aside for the moment the definition of Epiphany-with-a-capital-E as a Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi, most dictionaries define epiphany as a sudden intuitive perception of or insight into reality or the essential meaning of something often initiated by a simple commonplace occurrence or something very similar.To my mind the most famous epiphany is the one later on in the Bible where Saul of Tarsus witnesses this blinding white light on the road to Damascus accompanied by the voice of the resurrected Jesus telling him to stop kicking against the pricks and become a Christian. From this, of course, we get people saying that they've "seen the light" meaning that some fundamental truth has revealed to them. I find it most inte...
In Atlanta
2008-04-02 02:30:00 As I walk into thunder storms The old need to remain sane Different land and its customs Different I am to them Different they are to me There is no music but of my own As I recreate these days and nights Words form out from indifference As I finish up old stories and poems I am the inhabitant in room 335 On third floor, ...
Saturdays Rain and stormy Winds
2007-10-22 15:57:00 It is not sunshine every day in paradise! Saturday we got soaked with heavy rainfall and strong winds, for hours! But it seems, not all are scared of bad weather.
Cloud Impressions after the Storm
2007-07-28 17:32:00 What a big and impressive cloud between my two palms in the yard!This is the view to the south down in my street....and this is the view to the north where more of the thunder clouds were forming - and it was raining very hard pretty soon again......and then, finally it was over!Golden reflections in the water.Yesterday the rain never stopped in paradise - Thunderstorms were rumbling on and off and it seems it will never end to be gray and wet. But to the evening finally it stopped and at sunset time we had these wonderful cloud formations around the house. Aren't they majestic and impressive? I had to take some pictures!
Stormy Clouds
2007-07-25 17:21:00 Stormy clouds were forming yesterday evening at the beach and over the whole island and seconds later made you BIG raindrops running back to your car. |
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