We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.