People Have To Be Given Permission To

For People Sometimes Believed That It Was Safer To Live With Complaints, Was Necessary To Cooperate With Grief, Was All Right To Become An Accomplice In Self-ambush... Take Heart To Flat Out Decide To Be Well And Stride Into The Future Sane And Whole.

Old Folks Is The Nation.

I've Never Been Convinced That Experience Is Linear, Circular, Or Even Random. It Just Is. I Try To Put It In Some Kind Of Order To Extract Meaning From It, To Bring Meaning To It.

Our Lives Preserved. How It Was; And How It Be. Passing It Along In The Relay. That Is What I Work To Do: To Produce Stories That Save Our Lives.

Writing Is One Of The Ways I Participate In Transformation.