I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

Hope begins in the dark.

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.