At the flea market I found an early 19th century collection of, A Thousand and One Nights,’ Being seduced by the royal blue book-jackets, with its gilded lettering, I gently opened them finding perfectly intact engravings, and words that evoke…

                        Epiphany:   A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. (As found in the…

             …of the things we call life, of the moments we label divine, of those beginnings and endings, the ebb, the flow, the ache, the challenge. Life doesn't stand still, not even for a second. Instead,…

                         I am simply overwhelmed by the response my post brought yesterday! Certainly a cord was struck by it, a poem that a reader sent summed it up in one line:  …

I am not going to complain about my double chin. I am not going to ask God why he didn't give me long legs. I am not going to wish for a cute little nose. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ But when people ask…