Central for me is to include some sense of the human being as a cosmic being on a journey of discovery.  As history comes to us, journeys can turn into adventures (or adventures into journeys).  Journeys often involve tests, hardship, heartache, highs and lows- joys and sorrow. humor and whimsey.  We may be solitary beings, but we are not alone.  While a sense of foreboding may appear, I do not have a sense of doom, rather one of hope. 

It is out of darkness that light was born.