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Month: August 2022

College Firsts

August 28, 2022August 31, 2022 / Avery Now / 2 Comments

Rest assured that I am still alive. I am currently adjusting to my new college schedule, which means that today’s post consists of brief fragments from my journal. Thank you for your patience! First Morning: It turns out that the friendly asterisk on the bottom of my freshman orientation schedule was a misprint. The cadence … Continue reading College Firsts

Nightfall on the Mountaintop

August 24, 2022September 10, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

Night has fallen on the mountaintop. The stars dazzle-gleam tauntingly As I stretch to hold them As I ascend into the heavens And fall back, Cowering in the pregnant gloom, Waiting for the blow Which will send me hurtling Back into the foothills...

Song Draft: Nightfall on the Mountaintop

August 23, 2022August 26, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

Enjoy the Daniel Now version of my latest poem.

Ice Cream Shop Antics

August 17, 2022August 17, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

Beware of the "O," Tip Baby, If You Give a Bulldog Ice Cream, and The Rollerblading Minstrel

A Liturgy for the Wronged

August 15, 2022 / Avery Now / Leave a comment

The line between venting and gossip Is too fine for my rage-blinded eyes to perceive. The dam which stems the bitter flood Of careless words is cracking.

Ice Cream Edification

August 10, 2022August 9, 2022 / Avery Now / 1 Comment

Even in my "desert" of a summer, there has been scatterings of refreshment. It seems that the Lord handpicked an assortment of customers, as unbelievable as characters straight out of a Dickens novel, to hammer home truths through humor.

"Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you."

-R. S. Thomas-

"Imagination apprehends what reason cannot comprehend."

-Shakespeare-

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