It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

How you spend your days is how you spend your life.

By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.