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Perfect Distortions
As we grow older memories distort, growing more exaggeratedly vivid in some ways, more dull in others. Music and smell are the two things...

Paul Clive
Feb 8, 20221 min read
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Effortless Dreams
As kids the act of playing pretend was almost effortless and hopes and dreams often seemed achievable and important. Now we find...

Paul Clive
Feb 1, 20222 min read
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Nowhere
Sometimes we find ourselves nowhere in particular. Consumed with a kind of empty dread, a numbing feeling of not belonging anywhere and...

Paul Clive
Jan 23, 20221 min read
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Forgot
Sometimes things burn brightly for a time but are not meant to be permanent fixtures. Some are shooting stars and are not meant to be...

Paul Clive
Jan 21, 20221 min read
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Constellations
Holding our emotions inside can be difficult, especially when we are caught in a swirling sea. As the storm of life tosses us we run out...

Paul Clive
Jan 16, 20222 min read
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Wildflower
Different people thrive under different conditions. Sometimes we meet someone or spot someone who doesn't seem to belong where they are....

Paul Clive
Jan 14, 20222 min read
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Observation
If there's anything physics teaches us it's that the very act of measuring something, of observing it, of discovery itself, changes...

Paul Clive
Jan 7, 20222 min read
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Down
It's a cool place and they say it gets colder. You're bundled up now, wait 'til you get older... Down And out, for a count And a...

Paul Clive
Dec 28, 20211 min read
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Mazes and Mistakes
So much of our world is manufactured, if not by the political and financial forces around us than by our own minds. We sometimes get lost...

Paul Clive
Dec 21, 20211 min read
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Analog (Heart)
It can be easy in this modern era of social media and empty interaction to forget that we're all human and for the most part we're all...

Paul Clive
Dec 10, 20212 min read
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Orbit
The seasons change. It can be hard to tell if we'll ever see the sun. Sometimes it's easy to forget, as we build ourselves up and lie to...

Paul Clive
Nov 29, 20212 min read
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The Rock
The Rock Echoes of this piecemeal thunder Crushing clanking gears of stone Unwieldy chains like words unspoken The ungodly strong...

Paul Clive
Nov 19, 20212 min read
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Goosebumps
Love is like a force of nature. No matter how long humanity has existed we have had different ways of symbolizing love. Across endless...

Paul Clive
Oct 30, 20211 min read
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Autumn's Bliss
The weather is finally shifting, the Summer finally coming to a close. They say it is a time of transitions, of endings and of new...

Paul Clive
Oct 18, 20212 min read
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Iron Roses
Exhaustion sometimes over takes us and our dreams are the only relief. But what are dreams? Visions of other worlds? Other lives? The...

Paul Clive
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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Whisper's End
Is this path I'm on the correct one? And to whom am I connected? To what? What forces drive me onward? Are these memories worth holding...

Paul Clive
Sep 17, 20212 min read
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Trench Heart
No matter how many times I have this dream, it's never perfect, there's always something to improve. There's something about the pattern,...

Paul Clive
Sep 4, 20212 min read
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(Smooth) Transitions
Some transitions in life aren't easy but some are timeless. We are transient beings but we are surrounded by deep natural beauty. In many...

Paul Clive
Aug 27, 20212 min read
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Miles from May (Full Circle)
Life moves in cycles, cycles of change and cycles that stay the same. Things fall apart, things come back together, and the dissolution...

Paul Clive
Aug 19, 20211 min read
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Unforgotten Stars
Inspiration can feel like another world, an inner fire, pulling at us from some deep unspoken place. A primordial realm where we walk...

Paul Clive
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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