Everything solid was first an idea.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.