If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.