World seems like it has been day drinking on an empty stomach lately.

So it's time to introduce some sustenance to the mix, stave off the scurvy.

Modern life can be a bad cocktail if you're unprepared. Protect yourself with a steady mental regimen of positive self talk, radical self care and most important: passionate self love.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

-- Carl Sagan

Instead of unpacking metaphors though, how about we just give it to you straight up? This is about enjoying the journey. This is about saying the things that need to be said. About going beyond the limit, and bringing back wisdom.

It is also very much about the arts, the various ways we create and express and compress our lived experience.

So much inspiration, so little time! Better get on with it.