"Best of any song is bird song in the quiet, but first you must have the quiet." (Wendell Berry)

"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, […]

What do you do when you are weary? I think this is an important question to know the answer to. And the answer will be different for each one of us. That is why I like it; there is no "right" answer, there is only your answer. I have learned my way into my answer: […]

Seems right, as summer begins, to ponder a bit of writing from Henry David Thoreau: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that […]

"We create ourselves by our choices." (Soren Kierkegaard)

One of the main reasons we don't slow down is that when we slow down our demons emerge. This just happened to me. I have taken some intentional time off, and as always, the darkness closed in. I figure when this happens, I have three choices: 1. Get busy! Nothing like a packed schedule and […]