Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur..

I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced..

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling som….

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.).

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a gia….

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close ….

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration..

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be crit….

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till….

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way ….

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and th….

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying..

A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts ….

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find ou….

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business..

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long….

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes late….

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' ….

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, ….

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do..

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about….