The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.