It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.