Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.

Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on Earth were the things that turned out to be within reach. The same things I needed as a baby - to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled. Who knew?

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.