Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there?

Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.

Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.