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David L Heaney

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Voyeuristic Shame: Thoughts on the War in Ukraine

There is something obscene about standing just on the other side of a line that separates NATO from the Ukraine; literally an artificial line which determines whether you are safe or a potential victim of genocide. Moral obligations don’t cease to exist at artificial lines.

LIFE’S REFRAIN: OUTER HEBRIDES

Only the fool pursues grief as some sort of idealized virtue to be embraced. Grief doesn’t need to be pursued; it always finds you. Joy, on the other hand doesn’t seek us out, but does invite us to pursue it. It regrettably remains elusive for many.

Milton Road

We possessed an under-developed capacity for empathy that fostered unrestrained exploration that yielded to caution with age

Out of the Whirlwind

Our stories remind our readers that life is fundamentally about the person we are becoming as we navigate our way through its trials.

A Hymn to Our Hearts

Come thou that which I imagine drive all darkness from my soul. Fill my heart with love that has been longing for the gift foretold By poets, artists, prophets, seers they whisper of a world unseen. Open thou mine eyes and ears and rid my heart of selfish dreams. To celebrate eternal beauty, wear its […]

Principles and Pets

A few weeks before the movers arrived, Lynda walked into the kitchen to find Niles, our Yorkshire Terrier, laying alarmingly still on the kitchen floor. Fourteen-year-old Niles was gone. We wept, we grieved, as everyone does after losing a long-time companion. But, he lived a long, happy and full life that tempered our grieving and […]