"The Mask and the Cure"The man wore a smile, but it wasn’t real.It sat on his face like a bad hat.Too big. Crooked. Ugly if you looked too long.Inside, he wasn’t smiling.He was tired.Of pretending. Of watching others laugh while he boiled in his own silence. He didn’t know why he liked seeing people suffer. Maybe because misery wants company

The Fool, The Heart, and The Price We PayEverybody plays the fool sometime. There’s a truth in that, as plain as the sun setting in the west. You’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. We’ve all seen it. The fool is not a fool because of ignorance but because of the simple, human act of trusting. Trusting in dreams that fade before our eyes, in hearts t