The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.