The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.