All God's children need traveling shoes.

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.