Over the years, I’d gradually come to believe that family is like your shadow on a sunny day, always there, just over your shoulder, following you in spirit no matter where you are or what you’re doing. They’re always with you.
In the days that followed, it was as if all personal differences and political affiliations of any kind melted away. For a short period of time, we were all simply Americans.
What you said was beautiful. It takes a poet to talk the way you do, and like I said you’re the only poet I’ve ever met.
But as time passed, I came to realize that there was only so much I could do myself. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on – that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.
She cursed herself for forgetting something as important as creating beauty.
But are they happy with each other? Or are they together out of habit? Or because they’re afraid to be alone? In the coffee shop earlier, I was watching this older couple.
She couldn’t think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was so complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangelh erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him.
There’s something about the ocean that just calls to me.
The problem isn’t finding out where you are gonna go, it’s figuring out what you are gonna do, once you get there that is!
You can’t undo the past.
Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.
The ceremony was elegant and yet surprisingly intimate. The pastor read from Second Corinthians, and then Megan and Daniel recited vows they’d written together. They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
The bee doesn’t care about me, or what I just did to her,” I said. “She was just trying to protect herself. Now that the threat is gone, she doesn’t hold a grudge.
You need to learn to forgive yourself first.
The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.
Keep in mind that as hard as things are, it is possible to find things to enjoy and to be grateful for the opportunities that life presents.
While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.
On the trees surrounding me, the leaves are just beginning their slow turn toward the colour of fire...
He fell asleep almost immediately but woke an hour later. Tiptoe-ing outside again, he went to check on the daughter he loved more than life itself.
But I’m different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I’d been at the beginning. And I’ll be different tomorrow than I am today.