"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I finally wrote something after a long time. This is a result of procrastination and a rainy night.

It is raining.

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There is a certain hush to spring rains. There is something beautiful about the quiet, misty haze and watching raindrops splash ( Read more... )

"The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line." - Joanna Field

I found this languishing in a folder. I read it over a few times and made some changes, but I still I don't know what I was thinking...

there are lines everywhere.

the latitudes and longitudes of life.

most of them you can't cross. not ( Read more... )

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"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

It has been sometime since I've written anything here, and even longer since I've written anything that I want to write. This is from sometime this summer; there is more truth in this than I care to say.

In between, there are miles of road, of mistakes, ( Read more... )

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."- Leonardo da Vinci

So I tried my hand (again) at a piece not of the essay/analysis persuasion. And (again) I found some inspiration in one of
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"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is for
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“Man may venture, like Kurtz, into the wilderness of his inner world, and from his own weakness…topple into madness to immoral behavior; or man may gaze, like Marlow, at the bestiality, and manage enough control over the turbulence to live a moral life.” -L. Sams

This essay was written in response to the above quote, which refers to The Heart of ( Read more... )

The Role of the Complement System

In the immune system, effector cells maintain a specific function, and an essential effector of the humoral response (in which there is B cell-antigen interaction, with the B cells differentiating into plasma cells possessing the ability to secrete antibody), is the complement system. Composed ( Read more... )

this is a poem to the 5 year old

whom I haven’t seen in

in ages,

whose large and innocent eyes

have lost their youthful shine,

tarnished like silver candlesticks

by the fingerprints of

time:

a smear of blood from cuts and bruises,

streaks of pertinacity from adolescence,

I have streaked your face with countless tears

that fail to wash ( Read more... )