There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.

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

Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right

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.