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My house is the red earth . . . .


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I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies



My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.



If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.



A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.



Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.



There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.



Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.



Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.



But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.



There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.





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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

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In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

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Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.

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There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

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Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

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Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.



The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.

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