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

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?

I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day—the invocations and benedictions of Earth. I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.