Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.