A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

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.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

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

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.