Interior Journeys

"Home is the one place in all this world  where hearts are sure of each other.   It is the place of confidence.   It is the place where we tear off  that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness  which the world forces us to wear in self-defense,  and where we pour out  the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts.   It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out  without any sensation of awkwardness  and without any dread of ridicule."   ( Frederick W. Robertson)

Many disasters are presented as 'Acts of Nature".  Are they...really? (Source of pictures here.)

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? -- Marina Tsvetaeva

“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.” ― Carlos Castaneda