Words mingling, defining, hiding within a sentence or a phrase. A praise. A first person, seeing they are truly great, invests themselves and celebrates, then sleeps. An absent overture of bliss, a portrait of a hidden kiss, like a rose upon the lips of time forever never lost. Words are, of course, the most powerful … Continue reading Words

Free from colour, new snow and milk, light and pallid, white with fear, association of moral character and fairness. Free from spot or blemish. Free from moral impurity, innocent, a white wedding, the harmlessness of a white lie, white magic, heated to the point of whiteness, passionate white fury. Politically conservative, a measure, a white … Continue reading White

There are murderers afoot. They are pretenders to just causes, though they believe themselves genuine, they are casual zealots. There are many and their will is to threaten innocents. The truth of life and true meaning are long lost. Have they always been lost, in painful tragedies, in needlessness? We are still like monkeys defending … Continue reading War

I am disconnected. I see the White Helmets deep in the struggle to shame away the dust and blood, but they are just an image. I do not grasp the material horror of it all because I am not there. I have no taste of it, no smell, no touch of the trembling fingers, just … Continue reading White Helmet

Mysterious but ordinary. His soul was our soul, with humor, with paradox. Making words from thoughts. ‘Do not try to be like them,’ he said. ‘You are not them; you are you. Be like yourself.’ Be humble in your humanity, or you serve no purpose and will not be happy, with your delicate prize. Where … Continue reading Vonnegut