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For The Spiritual Camel

This blog has been set up to record my sundry observations, poetry, whatever. I use it as a spark to further creative effort. So far, it is working. Ha!

  • The Last Beach Day
    Clouds drift low,over dying embers oflast night’s firesandquite suddenlySummer is over,. Our dreams all spent,the pools, now coveredwith their shroudswhile fog horns soundoff in the distance likesome grieving orchestra set free to float out to seaby michevious childrenalso gone now; theirsmallContinue reading “The Last Beach Day”
  • Thinking With Tears
         I find that I often process information with emotion and that emotion has a focusing effect on my thinking and not a distracting one.     Thinking with tears is a way of saying that when I process information, I processContinue reading “Thinking With Tears”
  • Ample Make This Bed
         There are stopping points on any journey and I find that I often do not recognize these resting points for what they are. I complain that I have no projects and I am bored and yet I do nothing toContinue reading “Ample Make This Bed”
  • 1,630 Days
    Today, July /24/2025 is 1,630 days since my lovely wife Lynnie passed from Cancer. She slipped to Heaven in her sleep around 10 PM on February 5th, 2021. Hospice called and broke my world into very small, sharp, pieces; the kindContinue reading “1,630 Days”
  • Noir Morning
    The night shift has ended.Grey dawn is reddening into pink.I stand in the parking lotas West winds bring the smell oftropical spices from some foreign shore. I light a cigarette, watching the skysmelling the bay, listening tothe Palms tell me someContinue reading “Noir Morning”
  • Test Pilots
    The first time we brokethe sound barrierall of us piled on topof Dad cutting short hisSunday morning sleep-inwith incredible pops,squeaks, and other sundryatmospheric noises. The second time we brokethe sound barrier, we gotto Mach Two at Kathy:sbirthday party wakingup her dogContinue reading “Test Pilots”
  • How hard is it?
    We only have two hemispheres in our brain and yet the algorithmic possibilities of a decision seem, indeed endless. Wonder if my mechanic can take a look at that. He is pretty handy!
  • German Summer Camp
    Mom and Dad said it was supposed to be fun. I believed them and went willingly. I didn’t know any better. I should have though. I had watched “The Great Escape” with Dad countless times. It was a warning unheeded byContinue reading “German Summer Camp”
  • Deer have no address
    Everytime I drive the back road I see deer leaping across the highway. They never look. They just don’t. And every time I see a deer leaping across the highway I say the same thing; “They come from nowhere.” My partnerContinue reading “Deer have no address”
  • That Rare Place
    The spirit is such a fragile thing.
  • The Journey Begins
    Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton In truth, the spiritual road begins when the soul first opens, when we say “Ahhh!” to the World for the first time, no matterContinue reading “The Journey Begins”