Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):   What does it mean to be ladylike? Simply by being in a dress? How about being gentle(womanly) in thought, word and deed, unlike the old lady skewed in her perception, and harsh in...

Unicorn: Super Short Story #546 Just because you found a word that describes something or some feeling  does not mean that thing or feeling is real. For example, there in no unicorn and there is thus no real feeling of amazement over...

Marginalia: Super Short Story #543 Within the pages of the library book was the only copy of another semi-‘published’ book, in terms of marginalia – a critique of the actual book, that was just as, if not more intriguing than the actual...

Non-Descript : Super Short Story #540 Her distinct feature was her lack of distinct...

  Perils: Dharmagram #372 The perils of...

Lighthouse: Dharmagram #361 A tall rock like a dark lighthouse to warn others of itself and other shorter rocks around....

Island: Dharmagram #357 When is a rock also an island, and an island but a rock?...

  Sea: Dharmagram #355 The sea eating into the land, the river feeding into the sea, or both....

  Boat: Dharmagram #353 A boat as if camouflaged....

  Trouble: Dharmagram #347 What bothers you is your thought of what seems to bother you, not the ‘bothersome’ per se. (From Marcus Aurelius’...