The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.