some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

there are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again.

it was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty.

because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold, but just beautiful to listen to.

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

there is some achingthat will only heal...in the mosque of sleep.

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....foreverin my mother’s arms.

leave me some musicthat’s chocolate for the heart.

I wish to stay drenchedforeverin those rain-blue eyesin those...soul-reaching crystalsnot moving a musclenor breathingjustsavoringthis turquoise acheagainst my heart.

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Los Angeles is many places in one place.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.