Letters from a Shipwreck in the Sea of Suns and Moons

by Raymond St. Elmo

a ship wreck casts you into a brave new world. A train wreck just throws you hard against the old one.

'vengeance comes to those who wait'.

They weren’t beautiful. They were Beauty. I mean, they were what all our words for beauty were trying to tell us about.

You can have the words or you can have the meaning of the words, but by the nature of the translation you will never quite grasp both at once.

Say what you will, keeping the light for others is a worthwhile ambition for a man.

If I cannot have the choices I would, yet the duty of life is to make the choices I have.