Tossing out the Devil

[Manuel Tavares]

Tossing out the Devil

By Catherine Viel

Posted March 29, 2022

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We are the Seven Devils and their kin

Evicted from our Paradise of Sin—

But undismayed, since man has ever been

A doorway with the portals swinging in…

Outcasts we are, but never quite cast out.

~Edmund Vance Cooke, Seven Devils

I’ve always kept track of things, made notes, and revisited the past. I’ve been faithfully keeping a journal since I was seventeen.

As I add to the pile of decades assigned by my birth certificate, I’ve become less inclined to peruse my journals, although in the beginning I read them from Volume One forward every time I completed one. Forty-some years later, it’s impractical to reread much more than the previous day’s entry, if even that.

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So…what’s the point? Why do I bother to examine my life in writing when I can’t muster enough interest to occasionally ponder the story? Every once in a while I glance at the bookcase of handwritten volumes and wonder if I’ll ever read those words again, or perhaps write a memoir detailing the lifetime’s worth of discovery and exploration of the soul journey they represent.

I suspect that the essence of those words, scribbled and left in the past like the road unreeling behind a car, is actually present in every word I write now.

There is some alchemy in having created that infuses the alchemy of every new creation. ...>>>https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/03/tossing-out-devil.html