It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

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

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.