The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.