Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Inspiration

  • Learn to Laugh at Your Problems

    Image by Pexels from Pixabay Everybody else does… Every once in a while, no matter how hard you try to see that tired old glass as half-full, it’s not. It’s completely empty. Nothing to do but throw it into the fireplace, excuse yourself from the company, and retire for the night. Sometimes, although life is the best…

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Photo by Luke Besley on Unsplash reluctant poetry I’ve only espoused one cause in my lifeThe cause of myself. I champion me.My loves and my rages, opinions, and pinions, and ways,My privileged dreams; my unique debris. Precarious hold on the world, that seemed all rightat the time — well-centered in self. No outsideLines to tangle my senses with…

  • Welcome to Your Personal Infinity

    Photo by Patrick McManaman on Unsplash Please don’t muck it up Contrary to what your mother may have told you, you are the center of the universe. And I can prove it. It will only take a moment of your time. Our origin as earthlings People used to believe that the flat planet Earth was, vaguely, the…

  • Truth — Where Did You Go?

    Photo by Rhii Photography on Unsplash It’s still here. We just got lost in lies. Everybody takes a shot at defining Truth (capital T) at one time or another: Philosophers, poets, politicians, pundits, priests, and other people whose names begin with “p”. Also artists, scientists, and bloggers, your auntie who knows why you’re not married, and that…

  • What’s the Big Idea?

    Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash No, seriously — what makes you who you are? Think of the last time you had to deal with someone whose worldview was clearly totally, 180 degrees, no-common-ground, different from your own. Each thinks the other is morally repugnant. Each shakes their head and asks, “Who even are you?” With luck, that person…

  • Between Earth and Wing

    Photo by 广博 郝 on Unsplash reluctant poetry They bless you in the air, a shimmering spirit,soaring flame. They sense but do not see your nest of life,your earthen power,wisdom fixed not in the mind but deepwithin the blood. And you, eternal, more than glimpsed, be mother,root, and sea. I celebrate the cycles of your seasonsand…

  • I Used to Be a Time Lord

    Glynne Hather on Flickr Now I’m all, “What just happened?” One trip in a TARDIS and I was hooked. When I was 12 years old, I made my acting debut as a Lost Boy in a professional regional theatrical production of Peter Pan. I made a very strong showing as Tootles, according to my dad. That’s…