Category Archives: Shakespeare

Domino Bones

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

…Average Morning Weirdness… This morning, I rolled over to greet my honey, as she sat down on the bed (she almost always rises before I do). I heard three pops–one in my right shoulder, one in my neck, one in my left shoulder. I made some comment like, “Oh, my crunchy joints…they pop in sequence…it’s like dominoes. I have Domino Bones.” Then, I realized how much I liked the phrase. Domino Bones. “Sounds like the name of a canyon in Montana,” I say. Then put on my announcer voice: “They were lost in the canyon of Domino Bones and had … Continue reading →

To Be or Not to Be

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

Damaged people live among us. They deny, they lament, they scream, and think no one hears them. So they self-medicate, create grand illusions of fictive comfort, and when those fictions fail them, then finally, they descend into the abyss of helpless despair. When we hear our elders speak of “the good ol’ days”–we mustn’t dismiss the significance of those simpler times. They matter, because all those hordes of damaged people would have been fine in 1952, but now, they have to deal with chaos and war and complications and the economy and drugs and challenge and an ever-increasing onslaught of … Continue reading →

Impatience, M-Theory & the Nihilistic Abyss

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

It’s a true sign of the times–the impatience that has us standing in front of the countdown of a microwave, shouting “Hurry up!” Another version of this is jerking the coffee carafe out before brewing is complete, so you can just get some in a cup. For a while now, this societal impatience has been recognized by java Research and Development teams worldwide. One feature we enjoy in modern life is a coffeemaker with a stop-flow gadget so the coffee won’t drip down onto the warming plate, like little hissing H-bombs in a very tropical Lilliputian1 village. It bakes in … Continue reading →

Et Tu, Brute?

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

“You blocks, you stones,you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome…”-Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) I am regularly dismayed by human behavior. It seems more and more difficult to find emotionally stable people–people who have a firm grip on character and integrity, a working knowledge of truth. Some folks are just plain mean. Tonight, for instance, a person i thought was my friend turned on me, and although i think i know why, it still doesn’t make it easier to take. She was incapable of processing her emotions in a healthy way, and took her angst out … Continue reading →

Stupid & Happy VS. Smart & Troubled

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

I was asked, “Given the opportunity to choose between: (a). being delusional and believing in an intangible, even illogical, philosophy that brings you much peace and bliss or (b). seeing the “reality” of things and cutting straight into the truthful heart of all there is, yet along with that comes despair and grief . . . Which would you choose? Would you rather be “stupid and happy” or “smart and troubled”? “Thou hast vexed me marvelous much,” as Shakespeare would say. (Though, i discovered he didn’t say, that, i must have made it up…but I’m sure he WOULD have said … Continue reading →

All The World’s A Stage…

Kelli Jae Baeli Posted on by

As a person who embraces Spiritual Metaphysics as a belief system, I always try to find correlations. I look for the details that will bring sense to the senseless, or enlightenment to the confusion. One thing I have recently added to my understanding is that astrology is much more than the position of a planet when your were born. There is a deeper meaning. I think we are all born under the signs that will facilitate the growth we need to have. So maybe it’s not so much “I’m a Gemini, I’m just that way” but “I’m a Gemini and … Continue reading →