Category Archives: essay

The world is our palette and into it we dip the brush of imagination. The canvas is the veil between light of who we are and the perception of tangible life. I see my beloved as a multi-hued silhouette – … Continue reading →

O’, such romance, this fickle affair with time. But imagine if every day were New Years Eve; were we to dutifully absorb a moment of wistful reflection at morning awoken or before closing our eyes at night. Think about it. … Continue reading →

Sometimes we are only organisms among organisms – we respond through both willful and involuntary action to primal instincts and desires, triggered by external causes. We covet and protect and hunt and gather. Other times, we are more complex than … Continue reading →

(Day 9 of the Ramadan Riding series) 1. There is No Bike Path, but One Bike Path. There is no path, but one path, no matter which direction you go or how many trails you ride – even across separate … Continue reading →

If you give a deaf man a colorful music box with an ethereal dancing figurine within it. Do you hope that he hears the music? Do you hope that he enjoys the visual beauty and pirouette of the ballerina? Or … Continue reading →

Too often we treat sorrow as the shadow in the light that is better-off ignored. We might find it as the single black sheep in the flock that doesn’t see the white sheep as different. This thin and mangled dog … Continue reading →