This is my seventh decade. . . and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again. . . songs with which I have had a great relationship.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.
There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.
I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.
