In Silent Passage - Text and Visual Art by Chris DeRobertis (Dero): June 2016

// Thursday, June 30, 2016

Today's Tendril...

Getting and keeping all of your ducks in a row is a lot like herding cats.

// Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Today's Tendril...

When opportunity knocks on your door, answer the window, ask for two forms of photo identification, twenty-five references, and notarized letters of employment and residency.

Verify, then "trust."

Lines and Stones

"Lines and Stones"

Every line is an exploration,

A rumination,

A temptation.

And the path of the pilgrim,

The wanderer,

The seeker,

Is a path lined with misery stones,

Shards of glass,

And spiders.

It is said, "Only the driven experience frustration.

Only the driven know true pain."

And yet, aren't the driven also fools,
When they toil without progress,

Without satisfaction,

Without relief,

Without end,

Well into the morrow,

And beyond?

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// Monday, June 27, 2016

Longing and Vows

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On Display

Cascading sentiment.

Individuality in decline.

Bleeding hearts and hater feeds.

To like or not to like?

Trends and friends,

And trolls and vines,

Promoted to the top.

Clickety-click,

And tickety-tick,

Disposable truths,

And grapevine facts,

Always on display.

Copyright 2016 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

// Sunday, June 26, 2016

Today's Tendril...

Is there a difference between the bad side of heaven and the good side of hell?

Enigma 4

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// Saturday, June 25, 2016

Trapped in Time

Specimen 5

Specimen 662AF-D Copyright 2016 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved. insilentpassage.com

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A door that "must remain closed at all times" should be a wall.

// Friday, June 24, 2016

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Reluctance comes in three types:

Abundance of care and caution
Apathetic fog
Anxiety inducing fear

// Wednesday, June 22, 2016

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A tall tale has something in common with sky writing — the story starts out tight and well defined, then expands and gets fuzzy over time.

// Monday, June 20, 2016

Patient and Kind

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Sometimes "confidence" is the conscious decision to carry on, even though the odds might be against you.

At other times confidence is the fire of full on defiance, because you know the odds are against you.

// Saturday, June 18, 2016

Today's Tendril... (Remix, Dark Version)

You won't find philosophy hiding under rocks, creeping across webs, or slithering across sand dunes, but you will find philosophy hiding, creeping, and slithering in the hearts and minds of all humankind.

Original version in this Today's Tendril...

Pod 1

Are things true because they "are true," or are they true because you agree with them, align with them, are predisposed to them?

What if "the truth" is nothing more than the absence of knowledge and an all-too-green wisdom?

What if we're unwilling to ask the so-called deeper questions, because the ignorance that is our bliss, is also the sedation that keeps us from straying off the path of least resistance?

Pondering and exploring have lost step to shoulder shrugs and lumbering.

PID: 1466222400

// Friday, June 17, 2016

Skyway 10: The Letter C

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What is the atomic structure of ambiguity?

Vacuous statements swirling about a vacillating core of platitudes.

// Monday, June 13, 2016

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Sometimes epiphany begins with confusion.

Morning Crow

Morning crow,

Don’t perch too long,
On the centennial tree,
For the lumberjacks,
Are coming soon.

And the cawing portents,

Mean nothing,
To the shiny teeth,
Of hardened steel.

// Saturday, June 11, 2016

Hidden Life Within

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Too often, the only mountains climbed,

Rivers crossed,

Forests explored,

Are the ones in the mind.

// Friday, June 10, 2016

Persistent Ink

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A healthy dose of fear is—

A pause button,

A correction switch,

A survival dial.

// Thursday, June 09, 2016

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The trouble with being at a crossroads in life is that there is still only one horizon.

// Tuesday, June 07, 2016

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Little Bo Peep lost her sheep, because she was texting while shepherding.

// Monday, June 06, 2016

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When old ghosts are stirred, bearable aches become new groans.

// Sunday, June 05, 2016

Q Stones

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Said the...

Said the shadow in the mirror, "I'm not your slave. I'm not your demon. I'm not your fault denying pride. I'm just your conscience, but from me you cannot hide."

Copyright 2016 Christopher V. DeRobertis. All rights reserved.

Today's Tendril...

Carry your own bow.

Target your own prize.

Follow your own arrow.

// Friday, June 03, 2016

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Science isn't a discipline of "absolutes," but one of revision and refinement.

Its sequence is a simple cycle: Wonder/question. Explore. Discover. Process. Update. Repeat.

// Thursday, June 02, 2016

Today's Tendril... (Remix)

Apprehension, trepidation, and qualms are mental pause buttons.

Be willing to push those buttons.

// Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Today's Tendril...

The burden of expectation is always placed on someone else's shoulders.

Unless you're a high achiever.

Or a true leader.