Poetry keeps longing alive.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.