hnological and scientific progress over the last century. But what risks being lost is a proper appreciation of how all progress came to pass, what made it possible. Many of the great minds who helped to propel us into the modern age did so through quiet introspection and deep thinking. Adonia offers the reader the chance to step back to this form of reflective engagement.

If we may only venture towards truth once we inherit the willingness to explore it, Adonia's verses are a depiction of such an inheritance. The work itself is a collection of thoughts, all of which narrate discovery with unharmed truth.