“The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring.” — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.” — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice. — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“You can't see Canada across Lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
