Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.