Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.