But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

Tension of opposites.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.