spirit — Where'd You Go?

The Calls are Coming from Inside the (M)ouse / Of Mice and Man

Ring, ring. Hello. Who is this? You want to what?! Eat at me from the inside while scratching away at the sanity that’s disintegrating beneath me? I’ll have to call you back; I have the credit card company on the other line, and they’re threatening the same thing. Who has the last word.

Matthew ChicolaDecember 8, 2019Utah, Benjamin Hoff, the tao of pooh, tao, arches, national park, Bryce Canyon, dispersed, camping, camp, hike, hikding, hiking, photography, letter, mice, mouse, spirit, spiritual, love, compassion, stowaway, thief, mousehunt, mouse hunt, rat, infestationComment

Ingrain in the Membrane / Hatchway to Heaven, Hell, & Headaches

"Earworms" (a.k.a., songs that get stuck in a person's head) are caused by a phenomenon called "involuntary musical imagery." According to psychologists, the frequency of earworms "depended upon the thickness of several brain regions," but does that mean it's better to be thickheaded? Or does thick-headedness welcome more earworm invasions? Who inches toward an answer.

Matthew ChicolaOctober 12, 2018michael snyder, snyder, The surrender experiment, short story, story, writing, write, narrative, heaven, hell, headaches, fiction, self-discovery, soul, soulful, laguna larga, carson national forest, new mexico, journey, road trip, drive, negative, negativity, positive, word, meaning, purpose, spiritual, spirit, god, creator, universe Comments

Mo(o)ving Through Oklah-OM-a/ Are You O(M)K?

It seems I missed the sprawling shoreline, the dinosaur bones, and the various components of the state meal as I drove through Oklahoma, but I did find unearth a key to my mental clarity while on the move. Sooner or later, Who yields to being OK.