Blossom

Stop for a minute and wait. Listen to the wind. Smell the fireplaces warming up for winter. Feel the crunch of leaves beneath your feet and the bite of autumn on your face. Pick a flower or two, if they're still around...

Rosetta

Language is a barrier that will never be broken. We can learn, master, and teach one another, but what of those languages that are dead? That have no living authority or have altogether vanished into dust? From the Latin of antiquity to the petroglyphs and hieroglyphics of Native Americans and the ancients of the Middle East, perhaps what we will never know is what keeps many of us searching for the answers.

My Tavern

Happiness in its purest, most genuine form is rare. Instances make you happy, but they are only that. In an instant they fade. By contrast, happiness from companionship is the envy of all. Though few find it, those who do eventually discover the most beautiful thing on earth.

Square One

Too often things come full circle. In a peculiar spirit of reversal, the recipients become the lenders, and the all-mighty find themselves picking their way among the crowd. In this case the giver is now poised to give in to what has always clipped at his heels. Nowhere to move but forward, nowhere to fall but up.