To those who are given much, much is expected.
We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
I know why the caged bird sings.
I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.