These essays on life are a thorough reading of a young man's travels abroad while enlisted in the military. Ranging from fiction and satire to poetry and prose, the stories, articles, and pieces of work contained here examine the full breadth of finding a place to belong in a world of growth, change, and confusion. Experience the author's movement around the globe in his poetic observations, fictional retellings, and musings on the state of art, politics, and the human being. This is an attempt at finding the heart of life.