Every family is a ghost story.
We often think things are about us when they are not.
Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities.
Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.
I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn’t want to forget him. Maybe I didn’t want him to forget me.
They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty. “To.
That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.
Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty.
When you give, you get,” he said.
Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
My mother inhaled.
Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.
He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, “Body and Soul.
It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses.
So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us every day, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
Once, on the balcony of a seaside villa, she said she wished she’d met him earlier in life, and he said, “We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. But there still seemed to be no clear answers.
Most religions warn against war, yet more wars have been fought over religion than perhaps anything else.
His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.