When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

the beauty of doing nothing

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.