“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.” -Isabelle Eberhardt

Often a look diagnosed as merely discontent can secretly contain the self’s twisted path unto the state of who the self is currently. A certain song, a familiar face, or string of words can… Read More →

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” -Khalil Gibran

Just as our cells cyclically rejuvenate, so too does our spirit. Looking back to younger versions of ourselves, we might see that it is as though we had no idea what was to… Read More →

Je Sors / أنا الناشئ

    You have blue eyes magnified by the red of your tresses and hands that tend to cling to a glass of whiskey and a stick of fire. The right-hand fingers always… Read More →

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. -GK Chesterton

Some people believe that bad things happen in threes. I believe that bad things happen according to sequences. For example, our DNA has four bases: thymine, cytosine, guanine, and adenine. Base pairing at… Read More →

“We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

There is an orange tree that grows as the sun shines, the rain falls, and the days pass. You see, I saw a giant moon, a yellow suited butterfly, a gorgeous strawberry blonde… Read More →

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     Sometimes I think that I might be you, and you me In a world where we see other people who could just as easily have been born into our skin.… Read More →

The Tower of Tawhid

Shirin Neshat        Crisp, golden papyrus smeared with letters right to left they read: ”There is no god but God.” The Shahada is a pledge of absolute belief. Men with callused… Read More →

“He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.”

Do you know what I love? The feeling of feet at the bottom of the bed finding cold spots under the sheets. I think often of old conversations that were once important and… Read More →

Le Monde est La Femme

    Stop seeking start seeing What you can’t reach is in you Ready to become you.     It takes so long to complete what you’re not working on….     FOCUS.… Read More →

Women: The “Beautiful” Gender.

How is she? She’s breathing.       Or… She’s an idea worth selling with an obvious means as to how. Or…     She is gasping for air.  _____________________________________ Beauty is born… Read More →

Wear my soul like shoes and wear those soles out

I love that I wake up every day. Just the idea that there is some master design that allows me to experience my skin and soul the same each day. When I was… Read More →

Ego Tango

In a single moment I thought, “I’m giving up so much. What will become of me when it is all gone?” Unbeknownst to me was that letting it all go is the surest… Read More →

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”

If I was a french woman… If I was a bald man… If I was a hobo…. I would be someone else and then see someone other than that person, they would not… Read More →

Don’t slumber; just dance.

Sometimes in life, we have to stop worrying and start dancing. I mean full on kicking and spinning and twirling until we fall down laughing. In this world, there are murderers thieves liars… Read More →

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/seeking-arrangement-college-students_n_913373.html   What can a human being offer to another human being? This article and accompanying video at first made me chuckle while glancing through the news. Then, I clicked the… Read More →

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Life is a lively process of becoming. –General Douglass MacArthur

We are in a passing moment. We are thinking words we may soon enough forget. And in spite of being funny or trying to merely make jokes– this is an altogether serious state… Read More →

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” GKC

  If we could just gaze upon our future self for an instant, to see where we’ve landed, we’d be a bit more restful in the day to day. So much of our… Read More →

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” –John Steinbeck

As far as we know, we are aging and life is changing and such is proof of time. What if, however, we are simply wearing out in an eternal present moment? While the… Read More →