One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.