To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

I tell, therefore you are.

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.