Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.