We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them..

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community..

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse..

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation..

Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. We….

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart..

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cann….

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking someb….

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler..

one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the o….

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom..

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me..

It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we b….

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking..