It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to...
It is not just humans who are musical. Animals, too. This should be obvious in the thousands of birdsongs I have spawned, or the clicking of dolphins, or the moaning of humpback whales.
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?His voice dropped to a whisper. But the...
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert.I believe...
In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. I
If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status...
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afr...
If earthly mortals were being contacted by souls in heaven, Tess, a Catholic, had been the first.
I tried to stop your suffering, he said.We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.She smiled weakly.Stay with me.Forever.
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
I split my adolescence between the pulpy smell of books, which was my mother’s passion, and the leathery smell of baseball gloves, which was my father’s.
I made such a fool of myself, she lamented.Love does not make you a fool.He didn’t love me back.That does not make you a fool, either.Just tell me … Her voice cracked. When does it stop hurting?Someti...
I made such a fool of myself, she lamented.Love does not make you a fool.He didn’t love me back.That does not make you a fool, either.
I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it.
I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.
I have come to teach you that there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. ... Did you ever wo...
I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegra...
I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You...
How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then