Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

We write to make sense of it all.

But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.