butterflies were wind energy made visible.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

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

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

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

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.