Cold Comfort

To be certain, there are moments when not even the close psychophysical proximity of another is enough to assuage those more pervasive and persistent feelings of helplessness and desolation of whatever nature: emotional, spiritual, and even professional. Entombed and paralyzed, can only stare out to the brighter horizons in the hope of gathering courage necessary to shatter the inertia that holds us back from its promise…and our own.