People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

The Looking Glass- Wish it bares abides in us.It lies’ just yesterday my skin glowed in it’Today it pales like it never bloomed.

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds,...

We are all innocent aged kids.

It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they...

Everything is old, here. We are old – the Masters.””You’re not,” Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[…]”But I came far. Miles can be years.

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring … Wow, it’s good to be old!

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it’s favors to those called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle, or live either by flattery or by contriving...