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“Surely we know the difference…”
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“Surely we know the difference…”
“A process of receptivity that gets disrupted and blocked by effects of trauma and longterm repeat stress-distress reactivation cycles.
And one thing luring and potently addictive about any religion’s benefits – despite often potentially misleading and negative side effects.”
For a moment
It was there
A bridge across
Time between us
Proven instant
That we cared
Unexpected
Resilience
She led him through
Spring and summer
He led her through
Autumn and winter
Polar opposites
Finding rhythm
With the
Seasons
“No more waiting, hoping and praying for love’s grace, in the shadows.”
—
(Title of multiple meanings)
She usually greatly disliked photos of herself – possibly becauss her youngest enjoyed catching her in extreme, playful expressions where her dimensions would become greatly distorted.
But her nervous tension over the subject diminished when she thought of the prospect of his features also being squished-up happy alongside her.
In fact, the thought made her laugh and smile.
We are innocent
Like children again
In the Garden of Eden
Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
Is it wrong
Or ignoble
For me to ask
For our bliss
Am I a whore
Mere chattel
To own desire
For your kiss
In all the realms
Of kingdoms
No greater knight
Ensued
So why my Heart
My True love
Would I not
Give it all
To you?
—-
Elden court lyre with woodland melodies.
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By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025
That man loves me
For once it’s real
That man loves me
With a heart of steel
You never know they’d say
With a jeer unconcealed
But that man’s worth
Is beyond repeal
And if you say
We haven’t got a chance
If you’d argue
Our circumstance
Well then friends you
Haven’t learned a thing
Of what makes a woman Queen
And a Man her King
—
Elden sass upon verdant grass melodies
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As she turned to leave because she had to keep attending to her fragile realities, he paused her with a quick encircling of her wrist with his elegant fingers.
“Don’t go…
Stay.
I’ll take care of you…
I’ll take care of everything.”
(Title of multiple meanings)
It has always been said that dark and light can find a true balance.
“How to believe in love as real or worthy?
It doesn’t need society’s approval to be valid – only consent between two mature people.”
“A dream we share.”
—
(Content of multiple meanings)
“Perhaps I am entering some kind of acceleration effects on certain – and maybe many – levels.
For so long, I was just swollen and puffy no matter how I worked to reconnect and regain tonal tension.
But playing out the idea that one day it can all click, this might be shifting.”
Dr. Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor & Choir Manager
Naomi LaViolette, Accompanist
David Peterson, Producer & Editor
Stars
Music: Ēriks Ešenvalds
Lyrics: Sara Teasdale
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty