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I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
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"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
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As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him
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Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
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I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.
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The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.
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When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.
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Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.
