There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against one another and crafting lines of rich, humorous nonsense like this...

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you’re quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it...

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it’s the human capacity to...

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call “history.” Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality...

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of...