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Author's Note: I have a passion for 100 word drabbles, which are harder than they seem, so here is a new series, inspired by a daily meditation from the dailyzen website.

July 8, 2008

She is clarity.


Hearing the truth, 


she is like a lake,


pure and tranquil and deep.


Want nothing.


Where there is desire,


say nothing.

Happiness or sorrow,


whatever befalls you,


walk on untouched. 



- Buddha in the Dhammapada

He knew she did not like him. Dani Reese didn't like many people. He could leave that behind.

She seemed to move untouched through the world. But he had seen the demons in her eyes, tearing at her core. He had heard the demons in her voice, infecting her with fear.

She reflected the world back to him, and him to the world, standing between two opposing forces.

When he burned in the cold of the desert night, when he grew chilled under the searing California sun, she stood: his still point in the universe.

She gave him truth.