Thy enterprises speed, Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands Or Jaca's rocks first see?
Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been...
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...