Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.