The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

I want a big church wedding.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.