If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.