Somehow, we must remove the notion from us of our own infallibility. It is a hindrance like no other. Somehow we can discern the faults of everyone but our own selves, because we always have a reason why this thing of ours went foul, so that we seem always to be justified. We must constantly […]

I found that when some goal was pie in the sky, an abstract fancy, it was easy for me to have faith that it would one day come to pass. But when the hour came round at last, when there was actual potential for this thing to become reality, suddenly I could find only the […]

the heart knows its own, watching for the rose that materializes in full bloom the action is immediate, the consequences permanent halfway to heaven the wind turns into shifting harmonies of assembled voices i have dreamed of the music to cast me aloft in the moonlight pale to return to earth smelling of starlight not […]

There comes over some of us, sometimes, a notion that perhaps should always be shared, if one is so fortunate to experience it. It is the idea that everything is going to be all right — that somehow, beyond the reach of all mortal hopes, everything will at the end, end well. Though those who […]

What if, at the end of the day, Romeo and Juliet were not meant for each other? And it was exactly this quality that made them what they were? What if “meant to be” is actually really boring, and what that really is is all the people who got together without the drama, married and […]

I hear tell of a flower that blooms in total darkness: if light is ever shown on it, it immediately turns to dust. Though how it may be I have heard but rumors, I am told of some rare few who say they have seen what that flower may be. Palest white petals that seem […]

Barely audible, once, in my visions I once perceived, once conceived of a very curious thing. Originally not even put into words I could hear: “the Tree of the Forgetting of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” I cannot think that this idea has ever occurred to anyone ever before; such a thought in my […]