You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open..

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go..

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a d….

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree..

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me..

She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that….

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways ….

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life..

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to..

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?.

Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and ….

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the….

There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen wi….

You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always ….

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time..

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges..

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember..

Sometimes you know before you know..

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that..

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything..

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels..