A Book is like a garden

“Do you ever get writer’s block?”

I can’t count the number of times I heard that question, mostly when standing before of a gym full of wiggly elementary students. 

I don’t have a contract …

simply to be here is so much and because what is here seems to need us,

There is only one thing to do.  Go into yourself. 

Recently I had the privilege of being interviewed by my friend, the exquisite writer, Uma Krishnaswami

Sometimes it is the artist’s task …

To love and be loved …

Numerous studies have found that when people feel a lack of control

When people confuse their beliefs with reality

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles,

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention.

Freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday

The humble spirit: I learn the meaning of the humble spirit from the earth.

 One thing I’d like to know most of all: when those ants have made the Hill

My successes are not my own.

Praise god or the gods, the unknown, that which imagined us,

Your whole life