What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.