I'm glad you got something out of this, @davealemana. I do believe that we are, essentially, spiritual beings having a human experience and like to explore this mystery in my writing.

As for that main image, I used it because I found it quite beautiful (in a complicated way, obviously) as a kind of dramatization of the ongoing struggle for goodness, hope & transcendence.

The image is from a film, Endless Poetry (2016) by Chilean-French artist: Alejandro Jodorowsky—

Endless Poetry is an ode to the quest for beauty and inner truth, as a universal force capable of changing one's life forever.