Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
exaggerated sunsets splashed with rain, odd collisions of roots, animals, seeds. I didn't like a thing I saw, so much effort to be strange.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.
Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.