Here is my journey’s end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
– Othello (Othello)

Its not the walls.

My new house is an old governor’s mansion that is part of a historical district in LA. As such, there are several strict rules [...]

To die is to be banish’d from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is [...]

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit
of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars
-Edmund (King Lear)

“Can I come in?”

“Oh yes, of course, of [...]