Posts Tagged ‘Heaven’

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Hope, Kansas

by Seraphine Khorana on July 11th, 2011
Posted In: Comics
Hope, Kansas

Folks that live in Kansas seem to love it. One person, surrounded by fireflies as she walked her dogs one starry evening, told me “living in Kansas is a well-kept secret– don’t tell anyone.”

Mrs. Bales lost an eye in the storm and it was several weeks before it was found. Her son, C.R. Bales, was one day walking in the wheat field north of the Bales’ house and he accidentally stumbled on it. As he was walking he happened to look down at his feet and there was that eye staring up at him. He picked it up and found the glass was as good as ever, so he gave it to his mother and now she can see as well as ever.
Quotation from C.E. Williams (as quoted by Professor Tom Averill of the Washburn University Center for Kansas Studies)

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Fountaingrove Winery: Part 1

by Seraphine Khorana on February 6th, 2010
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Fountaingrove Winery: Part 1

The Fountaingrove Winery was established in 1875 in Sonoma County (California) by Thomas Lake Harris. Harris believed he was chosen by God to grow grapes and to make rare wine “filled with the divine breath.” He also believed himself to be immortal. The winery became home to the Brotherhood of the New Life, a “cult” that believed God is bisexual and that each person has a counterpart in heaven. Harris expected complete surrender from his disciples, including the surrender of all their their material wealth to him. He was eventually, perhaps predictably, forced to leave the winery after a sordid sexual scandal. When he died in 1906, his followers earnestly declared he was only “sleeping.” The winery closed in 1934. A fire destroyed about half of the remaining ruins in 1991. Today, the winery is mostly visited by local teens who like to get loaded and spray colorful graffiti.

Give me a severely dilapidated building, some broken bottles and cryptic graffiti, and I’m pretty much mentally and emotionally revitalized.
Quotation from Gabe Meline, The Fountaingrove Winery

Although the sun shone high and strong, I got a serious case of the heebie jeebies. I kept expecting to see ragged, misty faces looking at me through the cracked window panes. I love that feeling.
Quotation from Leilani Clark, Ghosts in Our Midst

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Vintage: The Fence

by Seraphine Khorana on January 10th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Vintage: The Fence

If i were rewriting this today, I’d say there is nothing on the other side of the fence. But i hope when I die, everyone I’ve ever loved is there waiting for me.
I’m in Costa Rica for holiday. I’ll be back soon. Each day while I’m gone, I’ll present a vintage Encore Seraphine comic “rerun” from 2007. I’ve done some light editing on them, but they retain the atmosphere and content of the original. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll have lots of new adventures to share with you when I return.
Happy New Year!

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