Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.