The author and ever so humble wordsmith behind this page

In the tenth grade, I was fascinated with the question 'what was immortality?' I read numerous philosophies, but the theory which has stayed with me was that of Plato, the Symposium. The idea that through love and beauty we achieve immortality and through discovery we live.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul - run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.

Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer).....

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is worse, only God knows.

Socrates - (469 BC - 399 BC), Quoted in: Plato's Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians

Estou aqui (I am here)......

In the middle of the journey of my life, I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

The coastline of Rio as seen from a birds eye. The gentle mist cloaks writhing sun beaten bodies on the beach like freshly exhaled cigar smoke hides a mouthful of teeth. Morning mist rolls in from the ocean and cools the red hot city as it's embers begin to die after a long night of dancing, drinking and flagrante delicto.........
Beautiful Rio from the air.......anyone here afraid of heights?