I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes