Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.
Forget love. Try good manners.
Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.
Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.