Agape is the concrete commitment to the flourishing of someone or something outside of oneself. Even and perhaps especially when that flourishing, hence the joy, is threatened.

To create myself from nothing.

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

I had my trousers on at all times.

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

I Think, Therefore I Ambient