Being able to receive help can be a good trait; but don’t grasp at what is too readily available, what is easy - the tempting and beckoning weaknesses that have always been there veiled, secretly engrained from challenges past, overlooked and not embraced,  now fully revealed. more...

In the belly of the workshop burns a furnace, dimly lighting a room where heroes of craft returned from distant travels more...

Back outside in the world where the game is won, is the champion that holds onto the chords of emotion with both hands, reserves the emotional energy only for the honorable fight, and digs his heels in deep.  All is hidden to all who watch, the long days and late nights where he refused to accept or overlook any weakness or vice that would bind his way.