T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside