Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

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.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

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.

There comes a time when only anger is love.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.