The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.