Thoughts in the Cloud
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
 If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that […]

I stared down at my email; Six new messages.  Behind me, my bedroom door continued to be pounded. All I wanted is a moment of peace and quiet. Ha, “peace and quiet”. I wish. I suppose this is what I signed up for when babysitting my two three-year-old brothers. It was more difficult than I imagined. Once I managed […]

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
 If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now […]

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
 Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.       Walt Whitman
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not […]

Four Elements challenge entry.

This is my challenge entry for the Elements Challenge.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Life-
A chain of pearls. Once it breaks the lives slip out one after the […]

The Five Elements Challenge. Air 气, Fire 火, Earth 地, Water 水, Quintessence 空.

His home was burning around him…The smoke was everywhere, but that was manageable, because Artemis didn’t need to breathe at this point; he just needed the twins out.

An entry for the Four Elements Challenge. Chapters include the subject of Sky, Fire, & Water. The last one shall be decided at a later date. Ch. 3 : Water : My first, and most likely, last attempt at some angst. Ch. 4 : Air : An old friend comes back to visit.

Prologue
Elements are the things that govern our lives. They are necessities. They are the very essences of this planet. Our planet. As Mudmen, we abuse them to the extent that we have either inflicted ever-lasting damage upon them or they turn against us and we are the ones that must flee their wrath. There are […]