
Failure
“Every artist was first an amateur.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson What comes to mind when you hear this quote? What constitutes a failure to you? When I think of failure, I don’t think of how unfortunate and frustrating it is, but rather how helpful it can be. Failure is defined as the condition or fact of…

Kindness
“Compassion has no limit and kindness has no enemy.” What comes to mind when you think of a compassionate act? What about a kind affirmation or encouragement? When bestowed upon you, how do compassion and kindness feel? Compassion and kindness are so similar that they often occupy the same space in the mind. A space…

Dreams
When we drift off into that strange yet personal place of dreaming, after long hours in a wakeful state, we find that there is no awareness of time, desire, food or drink, warmth or cold, longing or lacking. We are sheltered, for a brief time, from the world outside, sunk deep into a space only…