...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...

...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...

...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

...God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...

...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..