I write as a witness to what I have seen.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

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

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

The Bible will guide you. It will be a light unto your path.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

... non-use of rights does not destroy them.

Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.