I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.