Words for Life Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on…… Read more “Ego Renatus”

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it…… Read more “Battle Hymn of the Heart”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”            …… Read more “Every end has its beginning”

The hour of reckoning draws near Judgment day is here and gone Sweetly she draws me into her arms A liquid embrace to chase the day way.…… Read more “Ghost of Perdition”

I murder hate by flood or field, Tho’ glory’s name may screen us; In wars at home I’ll spend my blood— Life-giving wars of Venus. The deities…… Read more “In nomine diaboli – In the name of the devil”

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod;…… Read more “Through the eye of the needle I pass – Part 2”

“Memento Mori” – “Remember that you shall die” whispered the servant into the ear of the victorious Roman general, as he rode through the jubilant throngs of…… Read more “Through the eye of the needle I pass – Part 1”

“Flectere si nequeo superos, acheronta movebo.” “If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.” – Virgil’s Aeneid The swim was great. It was also much needed.…… Read more “A pitcher full of madness, a heart full of demons – Part 2”

4 AM. How’s the saying go? No rest for the wicked? Sighh… I couldn’t sleep. We were supposed to be meeting at the Victoria Regia at around…… Read more “A pitcher full of madness, a heart full of demons – Part 1”

Agony. Restless, tiresome agony. Throughout the night I thrashed in that windowless room, and tore the sheets completely off the bed. My mind found no reprieve at…… Read more “The devil lies in the details”