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johnjgeddes
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Effigy …Part 1 …Mechanical Bride
To make robots practical, flaws must be removed. But to make them endearing, flaws must be added. ― K Nguyen Diana loved moonlight, ani...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
yesterday
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The Good Life …Finis …Isn't it Romantic?
Here we'll sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears; soft stillness and night become touches of sweet harmony —Shakespeare, The ...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
2 days ago
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The Good Life …Part 11 …Self-Appraisal
Gazing into darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; my eyes burned with anguish and anger —James Joyce All my ...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
3 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life …Part 10 …Awakening From a Spell
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia— to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ― H.L. Mencken The ...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
4 days ago
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The Good Life ...Part 9 ...My Value Plunges
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. —T.S. Eliot We're at Victor's lodge and thing...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
5 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 8 ... No Risk—No Yield
Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. ― Victor Hugo “Did you get a new car, Gray?” Tess has just gotten off the elevato...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
6 days ago
PeakD
The Good Life ...Part 7 ...Inventory of Losses
The secret of life, is to fall seven times and to get up eight. ― Paulo Coelho Sylvia There was no doubt Victor possessed some mystic ab...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
7 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 6 ...Mentor Or Destroyer?
One of the characteristics of evil is its desire to confuse. ― M. Scott Peck The evening had certainly not turned out the way I planned—...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
8 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 5 ...Phantasmagoric Vision
Evil includes the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable,to foster their dependency, to discourage their ca...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
9 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 4 ...Pearls From the Master
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Words o...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
9 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 4 ...Pearls From the Master
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Words o...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
10 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life ...Part 3 ...Competition
Storms come and go, waves crash overhead, big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. ― George R.R. Martin Victor Goldman I’m...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
12 days ago
Hive.Blog
The Good Life
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss The crescent moo...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
13 days ago
Hive.Blog
Enigma ...Part 2 ...Mysterious Ways
One must picture the world as an enigma, and live in it as if in a vast museum of strangeness. —Giorgio de Chirico A Slice in Time With ...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
14 days ago
Hive.Blog
Enigma ...Part 1 …Sanity or Madness?
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. —Kurt Vonnegut There are no rules to mental illness and one patient is...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
15 days ago
Hive.Blog
Cloudy Days ...Finale
I was almost jealous of clouds. Why was I looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside her? ― Kamila Shamsie It was Wordsw...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
16 days ago
Hive.Blog
Chasing Clouds ...Grasping at Dreams
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? ― Sylvia Plath A cloud is just water—that’s w...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
17 days ago
Hive.Blog
After Forty …Coping With Change
In middle age we hear two voices calling, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother? — Sydney J. Harris A Ghost of My Own Do you...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
18 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lady in the Rain …Part 2 …Lovely Wraith
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament... — Wordsworth M...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
19 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lady in the Rain …Part 1 …Shadow Figure
I am not so infatuated as to grasp The shadow or hold her substance fast. — Sophocles Shadow Figure There’s a girl I love and I’m not ev...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
20 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lifemate ...Finale ...Almost Perfect
He placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist, my hips or my lips... he didn't call me beautiful first, he called me exquis...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
21 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lifemate ...Part 3 ...Unchartered Territory
The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for ye...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
22 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lifemate ...Part 2 ...A Primer on Degradation
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, a...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
23 days ago
Hive.Blog
Lifemate …Following the Program
It’s hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
25 days ago
Hive.Blog
Invisible Watcher
Where in the self-help section of Barnes & Noble is help on dealing with a supernatural stalker? ― Cosmo Knox A woman’s voice calls ...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
26 days ago
Hive.Blog
Empty Places of the Heart …Finale …Exorcising Ghosts
What you leave behind is not engraved into stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others. —Pericles Hiram's Monument I grew...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
27 days ago
Hive.Blog
Empty Places of the Heart …Part 2 …Custodian of the Past
All my house is peopled with ghosts... Some call such 'ghosts' memories. —Henrietta Stannard It’s spring—the season to ponder failed ro...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
28 days ago
PeakD
Empty Places of the Heart ...Part 1 ...Ghosts
I grew up in the shadow of a legend—Hiram Morton, my grandfather, who rubbed shoulders with robber barons but managed to escape the cras...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
29 days ago
Hive.Blog
Don’t Turn Away …This is for You
You are like nobody since I love you –Pablo Neruda You can run And hide from me But spaces between us Are only physical – There’s no dis...
johnjgeddes
16.5 K
last month
PeakD
Day to Day …One Woman’s POV
There's a stubbornness in me that can never be frightened. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me —Jane Austen It was...