Stories
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Branches Longing for Birds
A solo piano piece, reaching toward the sky. Branches Longing for Birds is full of longing and hope.
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The Choice Already Chosen
At a crossroads shaped by memory, ancestry, and unseen causes, choice begins to feel less like invention and more like discovery. What we call free will may be the slow revelation of a path already written into us. To live well is not to force the story, but to embrace it as it unfolds.
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The Illusion of the Coin Toss
A coin toss becomes a meditation on chance, control, and the limits of human knowing. What we call randomness may be nothing more than patterns too subtle—or too vast—for our minds to grasp. The mystery, perhaps, is not in the cosmos, but in the one watching it land.
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The Fire that Would Not Go Out
A man carries a fire no healer can extinguish, mistaking it for a wound until he learns it is a calling. When he stops trying to escape the flame and begins to tend it, his life turns outward into a lifelong quest.
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Seeking the Grail Seeker
A knight follows every sign and endures every trial in pursuit of the Grail. And then — exhausted — he stops…
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The Burden and the Bucket
After decades in the heights of wisdom and contemplation, the Abbess descends — into mud, muck, and the strangest teacher she’s ever met.
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The Voice and the Ink
A couple struggles to understand one another, not for lack of love, but because they speak differently from the heart. In the space between voice and silence, something honest is revealed.