The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

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

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

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.