Patriarchy has no gender.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.