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You don’t truly understand necromancy if you can’t explain it to your great-great-great-grandmother. — Steven Kaas Evening, May 12, 2017 Mojave Desert I. California shifted around us. Plains, then mountains, then taller mountains sloping down at last into a mind-boggling … Continue reading →

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy, Do you hear what I hear A song, a song, high above the trees With a voice as big as … Continue reading →

May 12, 2017 Los Angeles Over the centuries she had fallen in love with the place. A narrow plain, sunny three hundred days a year, blooming with poppies, watered by little rivers snaking out of arroyos in the nearby mountains. … Continue reading →

May 12-13, 2017 Pacific Ocean I. James Belowdecks was the crew quarters. Ana didn’t expect her own room and didn’t get it. Her berth had four beds: one for her, three others for James, Lin, and Tomas. Her bed was … Continue reading →

St. Francis saw above him, filling the whole heavens, some vast immemorial unthinkable power, ancient like the Ancient of Days, whose calm men had conceived under the forms of winged bulls or monstrous cherubim, and all that winged wonder was … Continue reading →

Afternoon, May 12, 2017 Los Angeles I. Coming from the edge of my consciousness, a faint voice: [Thou shalt not krill] The organizing soul within me – the kabbalists would have called it the neshamah – awoke, even as my … Continue reading →

Morning, May 12, 2017 Los Angeles A ray of early morning sun beat on my face. Clouds flew by me like trucks rushing down a highway, and the heavens seemed to sing. It’s weird. You spend your entire adult life … Continue reading →

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. — Obadiah 1:4 Afternoon, May 12, 2017 San Francisco Even though she could no longer … Continue reading →

Object gods have meta gods Up in their skies to smite them And meta gods have meta gods, And so ad infinitum. — Steven Kaas January 30, 2002 Puerto Penasco, Mexico With a look of mad determination, the big man … Continue reading →

Work hard, play hard, converge to a transcendent and unified end state of human evolution called the Omega Point as predicted by Teilhard. — @GapOfGods Noon, May 12, 2017 San Francisco I. The resemblances between San Francisco and the Biblical … Continue reading →