Do Not Deprive Me Of My Age.

At Some Point I Believe One Has To Stop Holding Back For Fear Of Alienating Some Imaginary Reader Or Real Relative Or Friend, And Come Out With Personal Truth.

I Am Not Ready To Die, / But I Am Learning To Trust Death / As I Have Trusted Life.

One Does Not "find Oneself" By Pursuing One's Self, But On The Contrary By Pursuing Something Else And Learning Through Discipline Or Routine. . . Who One Is And Wants To Be.

Without Darkness, Nothing Comes To Birth, As Without Light, Nothing Flowers.

Public Education Was Not Founded To Give Society What It Wants. Quite The Opposite.