Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.