It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold he...
There is a great debate in Kentucky, south of us, near Tennessee, between those who believe in free will and those who hold with predestination. I have always believed I was free.
I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seem...
What, in nature, Kit asked, is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?The Dismals, Giles answered promptly. A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land--North Alabama. A section...
That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears? Uncle asked me. It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to have on his person enough gold to bury him should he wash ashore. So the seaside folk wo...
That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again.... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then th...
S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in t...