It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.