The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

I am all the ages I've ever been.