In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving