If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is because we are too complacent. We must become conscious to the real threats before us and act creatively, imaginatively, now. We can no longer look to leadership beyond ourselves.

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

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

Grief dares us to love once more.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see