When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity
We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.