We witness miracles daily; any sufficiently distant event is indistinguishable from a miracle. What we do not understand elicits emotion—at times intense. The nature of that involuntary response determines character. If the unknown makes us afraid, we gravitate to stupid, macho leaders who stoke our suspicion of outsiders and change. If we order the thing on the menu we’ve never heard of, if we seek out new life and new civilizations, if we embrace the unknown as the greatest life force for good, then we live in peace and non-judgmental harmony with our neighbors. As you’ll hear in the title story, are we driven by our love of light in the night or our fear of the darkness?

"The Greatest Knight of His Age" -- with "Sitar Jam" by Tad Neuhaus, Joanna Dane, and Loren Dempster

"Autumn Eyes" "Breakup Breakdown" "You Are the Wind and I Am" -- with "Multitudes" by Nadje Noordhuis

"Indifference" -- with "Skillz" by Bill Gillard

"Time Without Clocks" "The Poem that Compares an Awareness of Mortality to a Stuck Pickle Jar"-- with "Tap Out" by John Mayrose

"Our Lady of 1983" -- with "Title" by Bill Gillard

"The Path of Least Resistance" -- a song by Bill Gillard

"i. e. Got Me a Girl" "In Lines Like Seaweed on the Tide" -- with "7-23-25-5" by Tad Neuhaus, Joanna Dane, and Loren Dempster

"The Gravitational Constant" "Autology" -- with "Aversion to Submersion" by Tom Washatka

"Visions of Half Sleep" is a dreamlike soundscape, a collaboration among artists in northeast Wisconsin. It is Bill Gillard's words and voice along with music by many.

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