Ritual.
Comfort
in ritual.
Dark
forbodding
place.
Ancient,
unknown.
Ancient
times
fi­lled with
uncertainty.
Dangers
everywhere.
Enter ritual.
Special places.
Gatherings,
holding
darkness at
bay.
Group.
Safety in
numbers.
Rituals.
Spirts
of the
woods.
Ceremonies,
keeping evil
afar.
Answering
the unknown.
Rituals,
modernity.
No different.
Soothing
fears
of
uncertainty.
Rituals,
safety.
Ancient
tradition.

Maelstrom.
Accelerating.
Global
change.
Faster
it spins.
Breaking
apart.
Exponential.
Technological
explosion,
tran­sformation.
What
once was,
fading.
Hard
to keep
up.
Understand.
Speeding.
Changing.
Unrelenting
blur.
Cleavi­ng
thoughts.
Fractured
minds.
Losing
perspective,
control.
Pace
r­elentless.
Past
simple,
quaint.
Future
maelstrom.
Overwhelming.
U­nimaginable,
just over
the
horizon.

Day
by day.
The story’s
written.
Pages
completed.
Turned.
Slowly
the book’s
produced.
Chapter
by chapter
life’s
story
played out.
On pages
decisions
made.
Written.
Autobiographical.
Decision
by decision.
Twists and
turns.
The story
unfolds.
Authors
of
fate.
Personal
fate.
At the
end, the
story’s
done.
Manuscript
complete.
Self
authored.
No rewrites
allowed.

Narrow.
Living
in a
narrow
row.
Perspective,
lacking.
Defined
narrowly.
Defined
by human
standards.
Understanding.
Reality seen
from a
limited
point of
view.
Simple,
bounded
vantage point.
Limited
by
finite
computing,
mind.
Finite
senses.
Worldvie­w
thus
shackled.
New hardware
required.
Greater
size,
storage.
Exponentially
more.
Imp­roved
senses
essential.
Vital,
to glean
true
meaning.
Understanding.
Currently,
existence
a tiny
place.

Shimmer.
Spinning.
Mixing.
Revolving
time.
All time
blended.
Interactions
betwixt and
between.
Events
alter
perceptions.
Decision
fluctuations,
****­mmer
the orb.
Alter
the whole.
Infinite
shimmering
orb.
Reflecting
endless
decision
variations.
Morphing­
orb, time.
Each flavor
different.
All
rearranging
within.
Transforming
internally­
without
end.

Horizon.
History,
past to
present.
Archaic
to
modernity.
Upside
down.
Growth,
exponentia­l.
Knowledge
compounding.
Technology
circling the
globe.
Gazing,
viewing
the
beginning.
Revelations
daily.
Buil­ding
on
yesterday.
Yet.
Beliefs,
philosophies
mired,
shackled
to the
past.
Distant
past.
Question not
ancient
thoughts
derived
millennia
before.
Kneeling
at the
alter of
superannuated
beliefs.
Time
ripe
to expand.
Expand
philosophical
horizons.
Ponder
anew.
Widen
the mind,
staring
forward.
Forward
toward
distant
horizons
for new
philosophical
treatises.

Song
cosmic!
Song
of the
heavens.
Deep
meaning.
Culmination
of all things,
times,
events.
Each
rippling,
echoing
resonating.
Cosmic
­harmony.
Piece by
piece the
symphony
built.
Rich tones.
Subtle
sounds
resonate.
Sounding
throughout.
All to
be heard,
understood.
When
the time
is right.