archive of an atheist’s writings on spiritual and… —

flash fiction — How the two men began talking about sexuality and not just sex, Michael could not remember afterward, but he did remember the conversation itself. Every word of it: “I’m curious, Michael, why do you spend so much time dating women? You say that you don’t sleep with all of them…

The Dandenong Ranges Botanical Garden in Spring — This morning, my partner and I awoke on the first day of our annual spring holiday in the village of Olinda. …

Mail Box Edition — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…

Yellow Snapshot Challenge — Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.Robert Frost Although I committed this engaging verse to memory while…

Photos from our garden and from nearby gardens. —

Can Memories Recapture That Moment in Time? — remember her mother clomping down the stair to see the priest ferocious how I admired her mother fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, she said mark her father no wolf but how wise an adviser, gentle, civil eye sir, walking to work see her sisters! each their own recall the highland house perpendicular…

Fifty Thousand Years of Australia Art — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…

Thoughts on Nature and Knowledge. Taken from my Wisdom Traces Archive. — Author’s Note: I acknowledge the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters and skies where I live and work, and I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging, as well as to all First Nations’ communities who significantly contribute…