Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.