Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

By seeing differently, we do differently

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.