Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.