On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the...

I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother...

Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off,...

Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps...

In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they rise and float away into the...

After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - though the whole...