Personal Inspiration

I am astonished at how quickly I was jerked from my usual, grounded self into floundering and fearfulness.

Why didn’t you warn me about Christmas pageants?

And the amazing, soulful, transforming stories she tells.

If I owned a fortune cookie company, here’s what I’d put in the cookies.

A mother reaches across the generations.

Original Sin isn’t a good idea. Expecting perfection isn’t, either.

The persistence of beauty in New Orleans.

The human response to places that open the spirit is deeper and older than any religion.