Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing up with a loving heart.


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KATE CHRISTENSEN
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s...
KATE CHOPIN
No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha...
KATE CAPSHAW
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
KATE CAPSHAW
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that...
KATE CAPSHAW
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, my...
KATE BUSH
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space...
KATE BUSH
I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
KATE BUSH
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
KATE BUSH
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'U...
KATE BUSH
I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr...
KATE BUSH
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b...
KATE BUSH
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in...
KATE BUSH
I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
KATE BUSH
I think it's important that things are flawed.
KATE BUSH
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
KATE BUSH
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to co...
KATE BUSH
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating t...
KATE BUSH
My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.
KATE BUSH
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I th...
KATE BUSH
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because the...
KATE BUSH
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in r...
KATE BUSH