Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice.

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

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.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.