She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei