I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

I read a piece by a guy out in Alberta that said Canadians are lazy because they're not patenting enough new inventions. I disagree. Canadians invent a lot of stuff. Actually patenting them is expensive.

Gardening is not a rational act.