I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

At our best, we're all teachers