Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.