The Architecture of Silence
In the high country, time does not move in a straight line. It pools like water in the hollows of stone, gathering the debris of centuries until the past and the present become indistinguishable. We build our monuments with the arrogance of…
Checkmate
Once Isaac Asimov said, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." Think about that. There are so many times I thought I am doomed, with nowhere to go, and life seems to be ceased. But then suddenly I realize that I am still…
The Weight of Water
In the quiet corners of a house, water behaves differently than it does in the wild. In a porcelain basin, it is a servant, a predictable element that obeys the turn of a handle. We forget that water is, by its nature, a sculptor of stone.…