There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely." From A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology. From A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays

we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up. From A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays

God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. - From the song "Geodes"

Something good happened to my writing when stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn’t do something more complex. Don’t be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

I'm a stranger here I'm only passing through, but every place I go leaves it's own tattoo. That's how it is laying stone on stone, building little altars by the side of the road.