maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of god that is inside each of us.

"If it is your nature to be happy you will swim away along the soft trails for hours, your imagination alighting everywhere." – morning poem

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things." – wildgeese

"What good does it do to lie all day in the sun loving what is easy? It never grew easy, but at last I grew peaceful: all summer my fear diminished as they bloomed through the water like flowers, like flecks of an uncertain dream, while I lay on the rocks, reaching into the darkness, learning little by little to love our only world." – starfish

"But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice, which you slowly recognized... – the journey