These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

They say just give up

and just forget about my envy, Lord and give me what I need

What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.

Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.