and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
A eugoogoolizer. . . one who speaks at funerals. . . Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
I've won at every level.