You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.