Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.