What is the meaning of life? It seems that we spend our lives in constant pursuit of something. At times the search stems from an inner hunger to close a void within. Other times, we are impelled by our need to validate ourselves in relation to others. Experience teaches us when we listen. Life remains a mystery, riddled with questions and answered in riddles. Soft to the touch, hard to understand, right before our eyes and left unsaid. Something. As a continuation of Alan's first book, "A Sense of Awe," this collection of meditative poetry explores the mind and heart, thought and soul, weaves its way through shadow and emerges as a flash.