All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.