Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what.
By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.
Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.
Love should be our walk and our talk.
Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.
If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.
I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.
We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.