To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.