Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.
I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people. . . turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government. . . Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
What does seem to be a constant is that I write more emotional stories the older I get. I think a lot of that has to do with growing up in a patriarchal structure where unemotional intellect (male) is taken more seriously than delving into emotions (female), and gradually freeing myself from those expectations.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.