I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

Love means knowing when to let go.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.