People just wanted to open their mouths and talk, and they didn’t much mind what came out.

How quickly darkness falls.

Ask that we not allow ourselves to be overcome by a grief which is not ours to indulge but instead be uplifted by faith and enabled to help that suffering family in whatever way we are called to do.

Say excuse me but, really, I am actually very much in love with you.

It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations.

The world didn’t always sound right when it was first explained.

Every step of the road was just as she’d dreamt it all the time she’d been away. Every step took her further away from the smoke and the noise and the loneliness and fear of the city she’d left behind. Every step drew her deeper into the hollows of the landscape, the green hills and shining rivers and mist-tangled treetops.

I’m surprised, but I’m glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

Now that I’ve had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?