Three Different Ways:
Dreams, Madness, and Myths
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Dream Journal: 2017-02-15.01
I see the rosary first. The loop is entwined between fingers and over hands clasped together in a solid grip as if for prayer. The pendant of the crucifix hangs over the knuckles in a way that strikes me at first as an apotropaic amulet, then as a visual censer, and lastly as a key to…
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Dream Journal: 2017-02-12.01
“That’s stupid! You’re stupid! This is all STUPID AS HECK!” The boy wrenched himself away from the man dragging him towards the brightly colored camp. He left his brightly hued head cloth in the furious man’s grip as he stuck his tongue out in disrespect and turned to run away.
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Earth[in] Blood
There is [wine] in the cup. The foamy surface clings to itself and the cup and the flesh that tested its integrity and strength.
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Spiritual Journal: 2017-02-10.01
If Gordon White’s podcast “Talking Magical Realism, Curanderismo & Empire with Jesse Hathaway Diaz” had dropped this time last year, I would have flung the phone out the window and sulked off to as savage an anti-Christian position as I could physically and emotionally get.
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Dream Journal: 2017-02-08.01
“You’ve been following me for fucking weeks! What the fucking hell do you want?!”
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Spiritual Journal: 2017-02-05.01
Shit is getting to the point where all I’ll have to do is post the word “bitch”, and you’ll know that Keri/Weaver got her ass spiritually ganked and thrown in the spiritual boot again.
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Spiritual Journal: 2017-01-28.01
Earth acts upon and through earth, and we can hear it from a distance. See also, the landslide and the earthquake. Water acts upon and through water, and we can hear it from a distance. See also, the raging river and the choppy sea. Fire acts upon and through fire, and we can hear it…
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Dream Journal: 2017-01-16.01
Dreamt I was dealing with the dream version of “everyday bullshit” when I looked up into the rotated night sky. The compass points no longer had any meaning, and the only way to tell which way I was headed was to compare my heading with constellations.
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Dream Journal: 2017-01-15.01
After a long day, I laid down to go to sleep. I closed my eyes in comfort. And gurgled.
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Dream Journal: 2017-01-13.01
The dream was weird from the start. Scenes joined together in the way oil and water homogenizes. Abrupt changes and jumps through devouring plot holes confused me and kept me from finding my intellectual footing. At a scene where my father does the impossible and acts in ways he would never do, I give up…
Got any book recommendations?