Today's Tendril...

How would you rather be remembered: as someone that made a difference when it was necessary, needed, or vital, or someone that made a difference only when prompted, prodded, or instructed?

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Two Tendrils for Today

Tranquility: A winter's full moon as seen through a row of icicles.

Alternate Version

Tranquility (steeped in the moment): Enjoying a full moon through icicle fingers and observable breath.

 

Anticipation and imagination: Watching the rise of a full moon until it reaches the point where the tip of an icicle—the memory of yesterday's sun—pops the moon, like a needle to a balloon, and a confetti of words alight themselves on the paper of my mind.

 

About

Tendril 1: A true story.

Tendril 2: Also a true story.

Tendril 2 is dedicated to my Notebook Brother.

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Today's Tendril...

Wisdom grows like stalactites and stalagmites.

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Life in a Box (This Pain)

The text forms a slight "smiley" face. 8']

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Life in Transition

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Today's Tendril...

A man that doesn't sense fear in himself, or in others, has no sense at all.

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Lines of Symmetry

     With all but her mouth draped in silken shadows, she whispered, "Follow the lines of symmetry through your imagination, my love, and along the way you will discover balance, clarity, and purpose."

     She smiled.

     I reached out to touch her cheek and she became the tendrils of smoke rising from the candle on my desk.

    A tear splashed into the candle's pool of shimmering liquid wax — and was no more.

Dedicated to my wife, for her inspiration and for never turning into tendrils of smoke.

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This text composition is a work of fiction. Names, places, institutions, events, incidents, characters, persons, locations, and/or organizations either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Full Creative Writing Disclaimer.

Tendrils 12

How many nails must be driven into the coffin before "the end" is declared?

 

Progress is relative.

    Relative to the producers and the consumers,
       the observers and the observed,
          the waiters and the movers.

 

"The devil you know," said the vagabond, "is as bad as the devil you don't. After all, one devil is as bad as the next."

Alternate Version

Said the clown to the audience: "The devil you know is as bad as the devil you don't. After all, one devil is as bad as the next."

With that the clown bared his long, pointy yellow teeth, then leapt from the stage into the bowels of the shrieking crowd.

 

Avengers have been wronged and so their passion stems from clarity of justice.

Defenders feel anointed and so their "enthusiasm" is fueled by divine right.

 

To knowingly and willingly hold a heart hostage is a touch of evil.

 

Better to prepare for Armageddon, than to laze about in a virtual utopia.

 

Attics and basements are the cemeteries of yesterday.

 

Just because an elephant can hold a paintbrush doesn't mean you should let it paint your house.

 

There's nothing singular about sin.

 

Glorious determination — the state of an individual that's strong in will and driven to succeed.

 

Reality is context sensitive.

 

About

Tendril 1 - It's not enough to recognize that something is over or finished or done; you have to act to put it rest and move on.

Tendril 2 - It's all about perspective. "Reality is context sensitive." (Tendril 11)

Tendril 3 - Has a relationship to the "devil" Tendril in Tendrils 11. The alternate version is definitely the creepy (horror?) angle.

Tendril 4 - Pondering the motivations of others.

Tendril 5 - Sad, but true.

Tendril 6 - Have to stop watching shows about Armageddon, the Apocalypse, and December 21, 2012.

Tendril 7 - One of my favorite Tendrils.

Tendril 8 - Started out as a tongue-in-cheek homage to fortune cookie words of wisdom, but turned into something serious.

Tendril 9 - What else need be said?

Tendril 10 - State of being; state of mind.

Tendril 11 - It's all about perspective. "Progress is relative." (Tendril 2)

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