I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.