Author: Fragments of Light

Held

I am battered, a bereft leaf loosed in murky mayhem, kicked up from frenzied heels Of moon and wind. No mooring remains in this, the last corkscrew hour before dawn. I am a burnished shadow, a swirling swan song to inky nihility. Falling. Suddenly! Madness slivered, snagged in the hem of earth’s evergreen garment, quivering…Read more Held

Scintilla

All around us is scintilla of God's Presence. Writing for me is a path of noticing, of being present to traces of glory... Word Origin & History scintilla 1692, from fig. use of L. scintilla  "particle of fire, spark, glittering speck, atom," probably from PIE *ski-nto-,  from base *skai-  "to shine, to gleam" (cf. Goth. skeinan,…Read more Scintilla