Author: Veronica Hallissey

  • Born To See

              Born To See You ask, how do you do it to see what you see? And I say, my heart pools in my eyes and I weep with the poignancy of love. I see the generations who have worked the fields and the August sweat that poured off brows to be wiped by the…

  • An Argument

    An Argument It was an argument persisting its stuff as all of them do. I say. . . . the camera portrays what the photographer perceives. And he insisted. . . . . that the camera sees the fact in nature and records it as such. I say. . . . a fact in nature…

  • There Is Unfinished Work Everywhere

    There Is Unfinished Work Everywhere. There are some things I simply cannot go back to. As I read past journals,  I do a lot of delving  to see what I skipped over and what I did not integrate.   I  then see what direction I must take.   There are some things I cannot go back to.  …

  • A Journey Of Note

    A Journey of Note With these, the words of my language and pieces of my heart, are memos of this journey to the top of the mount. It was not easy and I cannot say for sure how long in years the trials have gone. It consumed a private life as dogma was pulled out…

  • With a Singular Voice, We Pray

          With a Singular Voice, We Pray, Grant me peace,  O’ Lord God, to this house I live in and carry with me to the end of my days. Let me see the beauty in everything and everyone. Help me to understand what is mine and what is not. And understand that what…

  • At Her Bedside

    At Her Bedside  She would not last long, I thought, frail as she was, lying there with her eyes filling.  She said, they are telling me that the only way to get off is to step off.   She made circles with her hand while she lay in the bed, as white as the sheets she…

  • Privacy And Secrecy

    There is a world of difference between privacy and secrecy.  One can ask for privacy and choose it for  one’s life but secrecy is another matter altogether.  It is drawing a cover or placing some barrier between what one does on one side and with explicit orders not to be viewed by the other. Yet…

  • Dreamed Into Being

    His hand came down on the table with a thump!  If anyone can create a world, he said, you can!  I knew nothing about world creation but this Philosopher-Lawyer son of ours who gifted me with his conversation hours into years as he returned home for treatment of his health issue,  led me to new…

  • Thoughtful Responses

    Because their responses to the question of who to take with you to answer your puzzling questions on this hero’s journey were succinct and well thought out,  both Lois and Mark will have the chance to name their choice of rewards .  So when they  e mail me with their choices, I will be happy…

  • Riding The Ethers

    Riding The Ethers We are what we are for if we understood what we could be we would take our show on the road as an example. To push our ideals on another will only ostracize us from the love that struggles to make it to the finish line. When love is not, nothing else…