“If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they’d wake us up to the urgency of our times.”

Who says there’s just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest – all slippery water, unmarked?

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying ’24-hour news’ almost has satire laced in it.

It’s amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film.

When people are treated well, and they’re made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.

Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.

As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease