" What matters is this: your intent to claim the day with gusto and bravery and longing. What matters is waking up and asking, What can I...

" I guess she was so busy with her own happiness she had grown careless & was just wandering along, listening - to the wind as she leaned...

" We return to the house and take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! The air swims with life; the front...

" Sometimes you need to step off the worn path, lay down with your eyes up to the blue sky, interlock your fingers behind your head, &...

" We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world." {Jack Gilbert} ~ it...

I always forget how important the empty days are. How important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines...