The Beauty Within
Elisabeth Ross said, “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
Although beauty is something that…
Fires, by Mai Phuong DuongThe Ember in the Vein
We often mistake the quiet for an absence of life, forgetting that the earth is a furnace of slow, deliberate alchemy. Beneath the skin of a leaf or the rough armor of bark, there is a pulse that does not hurry. It is a secret heat, a smoldering…
The Edge of the Map
There is a point where the road stops. Not because the earth ends, but because the mind refuses to go further. We call these places frontiers, as if they were lines drawn on a map, but they are really just thresholds of silence. To stand at…