One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Live as if your life has become an example of goodness for others to follow.

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

I wasn't like most girls.

Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems. YOU are the angel that can fix your problems.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.