Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.