The Architecture of Silence
We carry our own private geographies within us, maps of thought that remain invisible to the passing crowd. In the middle of a storm, there is often a pocket of stillness, a place where the wind forgets to howl and the dust settles into a perfect,…
Love is What It Really Takes
Are you a courageous person? Do you know what it takes to become courageous, to threaten ones' own life for someone else? The answer is very simple. It takes only love. To become braver than one really is, to give more than one apparently has,…
The Weight of a Stillness
The smell of damp earth after a heavy rain always brings me back to the feeling of being small, hidden beneath the broad, waxy leaves of a banana tree. There is a specific, prickly silence that happens just before a creature moves—a tension…