I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?