First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

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

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.