Occupation: Writer Birth: December 2, 1948
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you a….
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered..
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 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..
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 ….
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….
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….
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree..
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..
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to..
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything..
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 ….
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges..
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 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..
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels..
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time..
Sometimes you know before you know..
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 ….
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?.
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..