These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.