Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below or hoist you above the surface of your life, enabling you...

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

without moving anything but your heart.

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart”- Phyllis Theroux

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which...