Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.