Make something beautiful of your life.

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted