“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”  – Theodore Parker

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would...

“The Animal does not question life. It lives. It’s very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.”  – Ray Bradbury

The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. ~Anne Lamott

Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin. Stephen King – Bag of Bones