The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

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

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.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.