The Totality of Existence
I awoke from a dream on Memorial Day 2024 with the first two lines of the next paragraph in my mind and knew I had to write something. On...
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Apr 2611 min
BONES
Sooner or later, everything, including these flesh vehicles we call bodies, ends up in a landfill. Whether our bodies are cremated or...
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Karlyle
Feb 1428 min
Edge of Smoke (First Chapter)
Edge of Smoke Copyright © 2024 by Karlyle Tomms All rights reserved Fresh Ink Group An Imprint of: The Fresh Ink Group, LLC 1021 Blount...
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Karlyle
Nov 15, 20238 min
CHRISTMAS AND THE SUGAR PLUM TREE
The Heights of Little Rock has long been a preferred area to live and is today considered one of the most trendy and desirable...
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Karlyle
Jul 29, 202316 min
Edge of Smoke
Human beings like labels, niches, and categories, don’t we? We like to define all things, including people.
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Karlyle Tomms
Mar 1, 20238 min
The Writer's Experience. . .Well, My Experience Anyway.
I don't remember when I didn't makeup stories. I wasn't a liar except for a few told during childhood, but I guess it could be argued...
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Karlyle Tomms
Mar 1, 20239 min
Death and Life Experience
Karlyle Tomms - A Personal Story Yesterday my aunt was laid to rest. Cold Arkansas wind sawed at our ears as we stood beside the grave...
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Karlyle
Jun 1, 20222 min
Man's Inhumanity
By Karlyle Tomms ~ "10-year-old calls 911 while trapped with Uvalde shooter as law enforcement stands outside..." Watching things unfold...
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May 29, 20222 min
Grief and Gratitude
It seems like this has been a season of tragedy, both for the country and in our personal lives because many of us have also lost loved...
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Karlyle Tomms
Apr 26, 202032 min
EVERYTHING UNDER THE RAINBOW
A Commentary on Sex, Sexual Abuse, Society, Spirituality and Sexual Orientation PREFACE: I wrote this after having some communication...
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Karlyle Tomms
Jan 20, 201915 min
WILL THE REAL MASCULINITY PLEASE STAND UP? My thoughts about "toxic" masculinity.
Okay, Gillette does a commercial which chastises men for bad behavior, a shadow of the “#MeToo” movement. Some men react, “I don’t need...
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Karlyle Tomms
Jan 7, 201819 min
#MeToo
I labored over whether to write this for a couple of months. I wasn’t quite sure exactly what I wanted to say, or in the final edit, that...
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Karlyle Tomms
Oct 31, 201719 min
WHITE FEAR
WHITE FEAR I first wrote this in 2017, this is an updated version of the previous blog post. I was raised in the 1960s on a farm about...
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Karlyle Tomms
Oct 31, 20179 min
The Woe in Woman
She eloped across the county line at fourteen, lied about her age, and married a man almost twice her age. In today’s world, he probably...
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Karlyle Tomms
Nov 6, 201616 min
STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF COURAGE - Perceptions of my Father
On the day my father died, I found a black feather on my way back from lunch standing straight up in the grass as though it had been...
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Karlyle Tomms
Jul 31, 20169 min
MOMENTS OF PEACE
Moments of Peace Karlyle Tomms 7/30/16 Pinnacle Mountain stands alone along the Arkansas...
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Karlyle Tomms
Jun 16, 20168 min
The Assassin’s Illusion (A commentary on the Pulse Nightclub shooting)
I grew up with guns. My grandpa had rifles and shotguns hanging on the walls. They were propped on ten penny nails driven just far enough...
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Karlyle Tomms
Apr 12, 201610 min
GRATITUDE
Three words came to mind the first time I saw her –weird, strange, and goofy. She was older than the rest of us. She had a minimum of...
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Karlyle Tomms
Oct 31, 201513 min
Perception and Injustice
The eastern Ozarks of Arkansas are not quite as grand as those to the west. Here the Ozark Mountains begin to roll gradually into the...
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Karlyle Tomms
Jun 28, 201523 min
"HATE (My Story)"
I understand hate. I have felt rage so intense that it incites to kill. I have felt seething, malignant resentment so extreme that it...
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