Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart

A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him,

The time will come, when with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door,

Genius is nothing more nor less

Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life

i thank You God for most this amazing day:

We must not only heal the suffering that oppression causes

I’m finishing work on a new picture book manuscript.  The title, Our Life-Giving Earth.  The topic, climate change.

I am life that wills to live

Your task is not to see for love,

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s

Who would have thunk it? A starred review for an easy reader!

It is not true

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime

It may be that when we no longer know what to do

Our concern for the future can be tested

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness

How lovely to think that no one need wait

Writing is like a love affair

This morning I find myself thinking about a long-ago friend. Her name was Barbara Esbensen, and she was a fellow writer—well, not just a plain old writer like me, but a poet—who taught me something profound.