I guess I’m finally through it. I don’t expect to get over it, but things are better now. I no longer wish it had been me instead of them. I remember the tragedy like it was yesterday: One minute we were following our kids home from the lake and the next, I’m standing in front of our car, with the lights of emergency vehicles flashing all around me. I’m cradling […]
Tag Archives | Modern soulcraft
Karine Ancellin | Athena’s blaze
Athena’s Blaze Dedicated to Panos Kokkinidis and family Amongst Athens’ top pastry chefs Panos Kokkinidis was spending a warm summer day near Mati, a picturesque beach town, suave and lovely on the Aegean shore of Greece. He had mastered the art of fire crafting innovational delicacies, well-known with the Athenian literati. So when the grey flames came blazing towards him his wife, his children and his mother he took his […]
Dane Divine | Dragon in the moon
A dragon came to me in my sleep last night. She kissed my eyelids gently with her hot tongue and made me cry. As she dried my eyes, she gently unfolded one scarlet wing. Inside the opening, close to her body, I saw my fears, cowering like newborns. I ran to her and picked them up protectively, knowing deep inside I was their mother, their charge. I held them tight […]
Diane V. Mulligan | The river mother
I have many times been a mother, but it was the foundling I loved the most. My natural born children were charmed and charming, graced with beauty and gentle dispositions, and my heart still swells with pride in them. And yet it was Hephaestus, crippled, prone to fits and tantrums, whom I loved above all the others. He needed me. How strange our little family was—an Oceanid and a Nereid […]
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