Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it.

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.