You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.