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• Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
• I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I…
• Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.
• Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
• Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
• Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and…
• Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out…
• Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
• You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back…
• I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
• Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
• For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe…

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