I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

memory is the only way home.

My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.