They are fruit
and transport:
ripening melons,
prairie schooners journeying
under full sail.
Quotes by Kathleen Norris
"Do you have trouble getting to sleep?"
"No," I said, "I want to sleep all the time."
"Well, you don't have the clinical signs of depression," he said,
clicking his pen.
I left then, for good,
and as I walked
the song broke through,
the loud green sound
of this garden called the earth,
the garden between my thighs.
The sky's spinning song
of light and dark:
a rocking in my blood,
the ocean's lowing like a cow
looking for her calf.
I sat and sang by the water's edge
where I knew he would not go.
Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.
There is a divinity that shapes our ends - but we can help by listening for Its voice.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

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