Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.