They Did More Than Take Our Youth

Love Is An Abstract Noun, Something Nebulous. And Yet Love Turns Out To Be The Only Part Of Us That Is Solid, As The World Turns Upside Down And The Screen Goes Black.

It's An Ancient Idea That The Leader Of A Democracy Should Not Be The Cleverest But The Most Average. That's An Arguable Point, But The World Has Decided Otherwise - Except In America, Where It Still Divides The Country Right Down The Middle.

Someone Watches Over Us When We Write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

It's Hard To Make Progress With Grief.

Love Is Blind; But It Makes You See The Blind Man; Teetering On The Roadside . . .