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  In Perfect Light By Benjamin Alire S áenz     For the longest time, I didn't want to read this book. I got it as a gift from the author in college during a time where money was hard for me and I felt ashamed about it. I also wasn't sure I was comfortable enough to read a book that -according to the blurb on the back cover- was about two people that were dealing with darkness and trying to get out of it.    Looking back to that one, I'm glad she didn't. Only because I got to read it now. At the time of writing this (June 2025), I am dealing with a lot of weird shifts in my life when it comes to people. People I thought were going to be around for a while are leaving the places where I thought they would stay, things are shifting mentally for me, and I'm coming to grips with a reality I was not entirely ready for due to my own personal failings. Reading this book reminds me how fragile and shifting life is, and how I truly will never be prepared for things. All ...

 Author's Note:  I found this long (5 Google Doc pages) piece of short story writing in my collection of old blog material. I find it rather odd that this feels familiar now. It seems as if I went through a huge cycle to now come back at its beginning. Hopefully with a new perspective. The original time of posting was April 4, 2017. If I have posted this anywhere else on this blog, please let me know. I just find it funny that this feels so familiar, even though it was written 8 years ago. ~ The moon breaks through the clouds, and the four of them stand there, frozen, waiting for something to happen. The open field around them darkened as the moon trains a spotlight on them. Without warning, the moon deepens to blood, and the stars drip like rain against glass.  “What the hell is this?” Ora wonders. “Looks like an apocalypse,” Renegade comments, “and I’m pretty sure that hasn’t happened yet.” “Highly doubt it.” Amethyst shrugs, watching a star slowly fall to the g...

      This is the main altar parament for the Lutheran church I semi-attend. I usually only come when the choir is singing, my help is needed/wanted for a service, or Dungeons and Dragons with two different groups. This church was the one I spend all of my childhood at. I was baptized here, confirmed here, and where I thought I would have my wedding when I got older.      But church changes. And so do I. As I said, I only come for three specific reasons now (choir, help, D&D). And it was one of those three that brought me to the observations of this main parament. For those who aren't super familiar with church stuff, paraments are the fabrics and embroidered imagery that are placed on the main church spots, mainly the altar and the lectern. These paraments change with the church seasons. Because Lent is the current season, this is purple.      What would have been a normal, semi-boring church service turned into a study of this parament ...