Various people and situations throughout my life have been important catalysts appearing with perfectsynchronized timing in accordance with my faltering stumbles to help shine their light to show me the way through my travels. With the importance of this in mind, I have gifted the reader, whom this book has found, with an eclectic assortment of writings, created by an eclectic assortment of individuals, as a tribute to the wondrous variety of the spice of life and the salute to the ever changing human condition. May these poems and verses stir your remembrance and ignite your fire for imaginary travel. So come sit beside me, if only for a while; to introduce your soul, to their songs…..