Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 15: The Traditional and the Tribal

| October 15, 2016

“The way Nature sees it, stress is the motivator for an organism to do something to relieve it. If you’re hungry, find something to eat and eat it. Thirsty? Find water. Too cold? Seek warmth. Too hot? Seek shade or some other method of mitigation. Tired? Find a way to get some rest. Sexually aroused? […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 14: A Bit About Shooting to Kill

| October 14, 2016

Tonight we’re going to gather around the fire and consider something that will tax the mental equipage of the average citizen, and we’re going to do this with the help of our guest speaker, the incomparable Lloyd, prolifically publishing under the nom de guerre of Lindybeige. You would do well to click on his name […]

Dark sentiments Season 7 – Day 13: The Veil Between Worlds

| October 13, 2016

World of Living. World of Dead. A veil that lies between. It bars the Dead from coming back, Except on Hallowe’en. I’m troubled that it’s strong and true A year of days but one, Then weakens with the setting of The last October sun. But all this lies beyond my ken, Or powers to resolve, […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 12: Fading into the Distance

| October 12, 2016

“From generation to generation, some recipes and cookbooks have become treasured family heirlooms. “The Nova Scotia Archives has scores of them in its personal collections, and has created a digital exhibit featuring hand-written and early printed recipes, some dating as far back at the 1700s.” ~ Hand-written recipes featured in Nova Scotia Archives online exhibit […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 8: A Foray into the Feral

| October 8, 2016

My poem, The Strange Case of the Caller at the Library Window, published here on Day 7 of last year’s Long Winter’s Night, “… is the story of two fellow beings. One, a solitary Man interrupted at his ease by a persistent caller. The other, as it turns out, merely in quest of a last […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 7: The Pause That Refreshes

| October 7, 2016

Back on Day 1, I laid before you some specific flavours of forbidden knowledge. I want to refresh your mind, Goode Reader, before we get too far gone, as is said. To begin, there are historical practices, now treated as anachronistic in this self-crowned “enlightened” age … “… There were, and are, cultures in the […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 6: Forbidden Reading

| October 6, 2016

The 1953 Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a totalitarian future version of our world. Inspired by a combination of his love of libraries, and his coming to know in his formative years that Adolf Hitler was burning books (in concert with incarcerating and murdering intellectuals), the book tells how at first, only […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 4: Most Loved and Frightful Seed

| October 4, 2016

Most Loved and Frightful Seed By LFM I would show you a thing To uplift and inspire. Cast a glow on the path To whate’r you desire. This mysterious thing’s, Filled with magickal quirks, It holds wishes to grant — If you know how it works. It can give you ideas To review and compare […]

Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 1: Forbidden Knowledge

| October 1, 2016

“If you know something, you know something. If you do not know something, it does not exist in your world.” ~ Musashi, What You Don’t Know Whether you’ve spryly hopped the hedge to get here, crawled, or were dragged through it backwards, welcome back, Goode Reader, to this seventh season of Dark Sentiments! Research for […]

A Proud Father Speaks

| September 3, 2016

The largest of our Small Fierce Mammals, Viktor, is three years old as of 02:10 Atlantic Daylight Time today. Tall for his age, smart, charming, witty, straight of stance and sound of limb, he’s developed a pattern of behaviour with his female contemporaries that is a wonder to behold. Released into any social setting that […]