There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.