Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.