What is research? A journey of discovery.

Piecing together a landscape of the past, a landscape that is Truth.

Happiness is the driving determination of the search for the pieces, the single-minded

concentration that drives one to discover. Then the wild, quiet joy when you discover the

missing piece, and, for a while, the peace of soaking in the experience of the discovery.

True joy erupts when ideas, thoughts and words suddenly sharpen into focus from a blurred

background, a focus that is familiar, a known, recognized visage in a sea of strangers.

Then the words begin to flow and the pen begins to fly, streams of words pour into oceans of

ideas, questions and arguments, delineating the contours of a narrative.

The structure of text rises and takes shape, defining itself through claims offset by counter-

claims.

Every brick in this edifice is infused with the energy of a story, an experience, a theory – all

first visualized, enacted in the mind, then solidified into the building blocks of a narrative,

carefully fitting together, their congruent edges a perfect match.