She's a real adventurer, my mother.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

She's a real adventurer, my mother.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children