La Vie Graphite

“I have a guide, and in his steps when travelers have trod, whether beneath was flinty rock, or yielding grassy sod, they cared not, b...

“The labor, of course, is in the unrelenting struggle to banish the countless distracting thoughts that plague our minds and to restr...

“Take this Mute mouth Broken tongue Now this Dark life Is shot through with light.” ~ Suzanne Vega, Pilgrimage

“Pieces of coal, hewn from the deeps of the earth, Here in my hand, spectra of lights retain; Crystal on crystal knit, back in its birth- ...

“Waiting at the airport on my suitcase, a girl traveling from Spain became my sudden friend, though I did not learn her name. And when ...

“When all is dark and dusty down the tracks; And all paths from exile have roadblocks on all points saying ‘no way out of here, go back...

“Cease not in thine intent, but strike evermore upon this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt you and your God with a sharp dart of longing...