The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world
I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.
I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.
A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems. ) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.
I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.