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.

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

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.