Category Archives: Featured Prose

Here or Elsewhere?

Posted on May 29, 2005 by Rastaban

The first great question of life is: here or elsewhere? All our hungers, emotions, fears, inclinations, perceptions, desires, urges, obsessions, wants, instincts and needs answer here. Yet the answer of all the great religions is elsewhere. It wasn’t always so. … Continue reading →

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Carol’s Death

Posted on July 19, 2004 by Rastaban

I’ve known a lot of death in my life. I’ve lost a brother and a newborn son, grandmothers, grandfathers, a stepfather, two best friends. The influence of death on me began when I was a teenager. My 9th grade teacher, … Continue reading →

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Are You a Sinner?

Posted on March 24, 2004 by Rastaban

Christians talk a lot about Sin. They say we are all Sinners. Sin was the moon god, worshipped 2000 years BC . In the the ancient city Ur of the Chaldees (located on the Euphrates near its point of entry … Continue reading →

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Drop of Summer

Posted on January 28, 2002 by Rastaban

Tonight the wolf moon stares across the night and howls its low & mournful, mid-winter howl. Darkness, and winter still, and a moon-howl of cold still on its way. But the afternoon! The slow, unwinter-like hours of sun-flakes wafting down. … Continue reading →

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