Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.