Personal Essay


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Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths with in our earthly sojourn.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Personal essay writing, dialectic discourse with the self, is a process of taking ideas and crushing them like grapes to create a homemade wine.
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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