I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

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

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind.

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