We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins

It's better to be kind than to be right.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.