Written By Willow
July 9, 2019, 2:28 p.m.(6/8/1011 AR)
the sea
the surface is warm
but the depths as ice
in the dark where light balks to live
the tide
ever lasting, never the same
who can say what stranger's shores
what waters, will unite?
ever strangers
no two touches ever the same
yet the kiss, embrace, never ends
between sand and shore
my love
you are as the sea
warm, salt, and full of mystery
the surface is warm
but the depths as ice
in the dark where light balks to live
the tide
ever lasting, never the same
who can say what stranger's shores
what waters, will unite?
ever strangers
no two touches ever the same
yet the kiss, embrace, never ends
between sand and shore
my love
you are as the sea
warm, salt, and full of mystery
Written By Willow
July 8, 2019, 12:30 p.m.(6/5/1011 AR)
Someone pointed out a while back that these are the records we leave for posterity. Honestly that is one of the largest reasons I am unafraid to look a bit touched in the head to the portion of the uninitiated who, on reading, would think me mad. For the ones who know just enough that some revelation can be genuinely helpful.
When seeking the path of the Initiate, there are so many secrets and stories, and fragments that it can make your head spin. That it can leave you wondering if you will ever know enough of this or that thing to feel like you have genuinely mastered or even truly /grasped/ it.
Silence has stolen so much from us. Both literally and figuratively. If I have to look like I have a few crazypants ideas to help others find the first steps on the path to the removal of the veil? It is a worthwhile price, and few artists are appreciated properly within their lifetime anyhow.
When seeking the path of the Initiate, there are so many secrets and stories, and fragments that it can make your head spin. That it can leave you wondering if you will ever know enough of this or that thing to feel like you have genuinely mastered or even truly /grasped/ it.
Silence has stolen so much from us. Both literally and figuratively. If I have to look like I have a few crazypants ideas to help others find the first steps on the path to the removal of the veil? It is a worthwhile price, and few artists are appreciated properly within their lifetime anyhow.
Written By Willow
July 7, 2019, 7:44 a.m.(6/3/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Kenna
It was so nice to see you and have the chance to talk somewhere peaceful. I look forward to the next time. And your cloak? Probably one of the single most beautiful things I have ever laid eyes upon.
Written By Willow
July 5, 2019, 2:46 p.m.(5/28/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Duarte
If I had known, I might have stopped by. Most of my communing with and prayers to Mangata happens at the beach shrine. The fish and Atrium are lovely at the place inside the city, but the sea breeze breath and heartbeat tides feel such a stronger and more primal place to make that connection.
Written By Willow
July 5, 2019, 2:42 p.m.(5/28/1011 AR)
Today, I miss my neice terribly. The sound of her singing echoing through the gardens. It is only my own voice that breaks through the distant pounding of waves, the birdsong resonating through these beautifully cultivated empty chambers, the sound reverberating into a silence as distant as Everwinter.
What was cloying heat last year reads as a warm embrace, this year. I wrote something finally, but not the poetry I said I would. On its face it is fiction. In its essence, it is more like projection. Fictionalized admittedly, but it bites closer to the heart than I would like to admit.
Days like today, I am reminded of something a shav I once knew would lament. "Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain." Warchief Mandragor, you are righter than you knew.
What was cloying heat last year reads as a warm embrace, this year. I wrote something finally, but not the poetry I said I would. On its face it is fiction. In its essence, it is more like projection. Fictionalized admittedly, but it bites closer to the heart than I would like to admit.
Days like today, I am reminded of something a shav I once knew would lament. "Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain." Warchief Mandragor, you are righter than you knew.
Written By Willow
July 5, 2019, 2:31 p.m.(5/28/1011 AR)
If I stop and look back, all is lost.
Written By Willow
June 30, 2019, 5:35 p.m.(5/18/1011 AR)
Next time I visit the Shrine of Mangata inside the city, I should bring something to draw the fish.
Written By Willow
June 29, 2019, 11:31 a.m.(5/15/1011 AR)
It is an amazing thing how a year can change a person's perspective. I feel like the last year has been full enough to have been the ten years before it. Whether it is because Arx is so bustling or because the mantle of responsibility has opened ip innumerable new possibilities, I can only guess. May the next year be even busier and even better,
Written By Willow
June 26, 2019, 3:41 a.m.(5/9/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Peri
That is one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that someone from the family who owns the Murder of Crows has a crow.
I'm not saying all crows are good or that all crows are bad. What I /am/ saying is that there is more context to that particular than you were seemingly taking into account.
I'm not saying all crows are good or that all crows are bad. What I /am/ saying is that there is more context to that particular than you were seemingly taking into account.
Written By Willow
June 25, 2019, 8:25 a.m.(5/7/1011 AR)
Brady has the best ideas.
I let my fear sidetrack me, after the crow.
I am going to paint the Gods.
I let my fear sidetrack me, after the crow.
I am going to paint the Gods.
Written By Willow
June 22, 2019, 5:58 a.m.(5/1/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Vanora
Isn't she just the best? I absolutely adore the Princess General. She is fierce and cunning and clever and kind and even funny all rolled into one. I don't doubt she has many better who've known her longer, but I consider Princess Reese to be my best friend.
Written By Willow
June 20, 2019, 8:20 a.m.(4/25/1011 AR)
Zealotry and pragmatism make poor bedfellows.
Written By Willow
June 19, 2019, 8:12 a.m.(4/23/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Alecstazi
It is such a joy and so refreshing to treat with someone else who seems to have such a similar perspective. There are a good many ways in which I might be considered progressive or unorthodox, and those are usually the product of reflection and careful cultivation and thought experiment. I am reminded on reading his latest musings of why it was that I wanted to try to work with Thrax and the Peerage of the Isles on the most respectful terms possible. When hearing that Thralldom was ultimately going to be abolished, as a Northerner with our associations with and allusions to Skald, I was in truth overjoyed, because that has never been something I have believed was right. But at the same time, my heart went out to a people who were watching their traditions and way of life disappear, because all I could think was what if the same happens to or were to happen to shamanism, and what impact would that have on Stonedeep, its stability, and morale. What would it be like to have someone else take it from us because they disagreed?
Written By Willow
June 17, 2019, 6:56 a.m.(4/19/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Brigida
Had a wonderful talk with the Archlector when I came to the Shrine of Petrichor to visit. I had intended to paint or sew something in the relative peace and emptiness of the Shrine but every time I run into her she makes me so pleasantly homesick for my grandmother. I love picturing what their friendship must have been like before she was married into Nightgold and Blessed Brigida joined the church. Such charm and verve must have made them terribly popular.
Written By Willow
June 15, 2019, 3:31 a.m.(4/15/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Sophie
Every time I meet Sister Sophie again, I am taken anew by her warmth and kindness and the /energy/ she exudes. I don't know if I would have guessed at Mother Mercy being young if I had been asked to picture what I thought the first among Mercies might be like, but somehow when you meet her, no, it isn't necessarily what you pictured but somehow is perfect in ways you might not even have thought of.
Written By Willow
June 8, 2019, 6:29 p.m.(4/2/1011 AR)
It occurs to me that some think of me as queer or not entirely in touch with reality as a result of speaking openly of things they have been raised to think of as tales.
It makes me wonder if these people think the queen just has a birth defect of ears shaped like no human's. If they only follow ten gods still instead of the three that were rediscovered.
Eh.
It makes me wonder if these people think the queen just has a birth defect of ears shaped like no human's. If they only follow ten gods still instead of the three that were rediscovered.
Eh.
Written By Willow
June 7, 2019, 8:10 a.m.(3/27/1011 AR)
you once wore effortless smiles
lazy and lingering like some great cat
they bathed you with warmth
made even the greatest missteps charming...
we met on the beach
a sunset and a cigar of haze
reawakened a heart from wintry slumber
trickster, gangster, prankster
we danced and forgot the world of a time
my grief clouds my sight
sorrow wrought in dust of the man I once knew
lazy and lingering like some great cat
they bathed you with warmth
made even the greatest missteps charming...
we met on the beach
a sunset and a cigar of haze
reawakened a heart from wintry slumber
trickster, gangster, prankster
we danced and forgot the world of a time
my grief clouds my sight
sorrow wrought in dust of the man I once knew
Written By Willow
June 7, 2019, 7:57 a.m.(3/27/1011 AR)
If the arts of a mage involve writing a new story, what does it say that each of the metallic order chose a metal. Cold, hard and eternal. If magick works on the principles of the way the weave of existence is supposed to behave, it makes me wonder that so many metallic mages are seemingly eternal as metal. I wish I understood their arts better, in truth. It feels like truly grasping it all would grant some rare and fundamental insight with regards to the workings of the world itself.
Written By Willow
June 4, 2019, 6:02 p.m.(3/22/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Arcadia
Planned to kill someone unarmed and weaker than him?
Even if the claim you make of the spear being gone for were true, you yourself wrote specifically to comment on a heated disagreement in the moment, which would suggest an impulse borne of momentary passion, and certainly the exact /opposite/ of planning.
About lives? Yes, all of them matter equally, slave, slaver, commoner, noble, poet, knight, they are all lives and all sacred. Does that excuse slavery? No. Does that disregard the suffering of those enslaved? I would also say no - in fact, the very position that all lives are sacred and equal is one that makes any act of slavery inexcusable.
Even if the claim you make of the spear being gone for were true, you yourself wrote specifically to comment on a heated disagreement in the moment, which would suggest an impulse borne of momentary passion, and certainly the exact /opposite/ of planning.
About lives? Yes, all of them matter equally, slave, slaver, commoner, noble, poet, knight, they are all lives and all sacred. Does that excuse slavery? No. Does that disregard the suffering of those enslaved? I would also say no - in fact, the very position that all lives are sacred and equal is one that makes any act of slavery inexcusable.
Written By Willow
June 2, 2019, 8:54 a.m.(3/17/1011 AR)
I look forward to finishing my dance costume. Even if I am not overly likely to wear ut for an audience larger than one. I am considering adding bells in addition to the discs, but am undecided. Perhaps I will make several versions with differing ornamentation. Though in truth I have a different muse of late and am experimenting with a venture into menswear with, so far, decent outcome.
I have a much more expensive venture on my mind for myself, as well. Though, like the gown of glass glazed rose petals, the specifics should definitely remain secret until the time is right if one is to maximize impact.
I have a much more expensive venture on my mind for myself, as well. Though, like the gown of glass glazed rose petals, the specifics should definitely remain secret until the time is right if one is to maximize impact.
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