This collection is born from moments - those suspended breaths between experience and understanding, between what we feel and what we dare to say.
Here, in these pages, you'll find two streams of consciousness flowing together yet remaining distinct. The essays ("Pensées") are my attempts to grasp at profound truths through the lens of personal experience, each one a lantern held up to life's deeper mysteries. The poems ("Verses") are fragments of feeling crystallized into form, capturing those fleeting moments when emotion transcends language.
Like the Japanese concept of "ma" (間) - the meaningful space between things - this collection honors the gaps as much as the words. It is in these intervals, these liminal spaces between knowing and uncertainty, that we often find our truest insights. Each piece here is both complete in itself and part of a larger conversation about what it means to be human in a world that constantly challenges our understanding of ourselves.
I offer these words not as definitive answers, but as fellow travelers on the path of questioning. They are footprints in the sand of consciousness, traces of a journey that continues with each reader who brings their own meaning to these pages.
In the spirit of Fernando Pessoa, who wrote, "My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony," I invite you to find your own music in these collected thoughts.
Turn these pages gently. Let the words breathe. Find yourself in the spaces between lines.
Welcome to the wabi-sabi words.
