...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

You’re mad, ” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.