Close to the Edge

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.  And see if I could not learn ...

"My lover is mine and I am his.  Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover and be like a gazelle or like a young stag ...

If I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me."  Psalm 139:9-10 I had the opportunity to spen...

"The wind blows wherever it pleases.  You hear it's sounds, but you cannot tell where it comes from, or where it is going.  So it...

"I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage...

"It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what...

"The beauty of rivers is in large part the same kind of beauty that good music has.  It has patterns that delight us and evoke our de...