religare, ink on paper, 5.5"x 8.5",2014

Some scholars have traced the origins of the word "religion" to it's latin roots of 'religare', translated as "to reconnect, bind". (re= again) (ligare= to bind)... It is with this re-connection that is at the heart of our fundamental struggle in, with all things in this world. It is also the completest victory if we are ever able bring the 2 together. As it once was, though with time, our choices had stretched a space between so far. May we meet one another there, on that mountain top of our shared destiny, fullfilled and be among one another in rejoice, grace, and peace.

   Excerpt from TS Elliot's poem "The Gidding"-

What we call the beginning is often the end
 And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from
...we shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring 
Will be to arrive where we started 


And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate 


When the last of earth left to discover 
Is that which was the beginning; 


At the source of the longest river 


The voice of the hidden waterfall


And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for


But heard, half-heard, in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea.


Quick now, here, now, always-- 
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)


And all shall be well and
 All manner of thing shall be well


When the tongues of flames are in-folded 
Into the crowned knot of fire


And the fire and the rose are one.