The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.