You will never be the best at anything if you never do your best at something.

Even if there were no ear for them but the void our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

The answer to our prayer may be coming although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter although hidden and seemingly dead and lost is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.

Im far from the world and I see it like a brightly lit ball in the distance. The sky behind it is mostly gray. It starts in silence but I can see the people. Everyone is in a hurry. Theyre racing around the globe. They each hold a thread like a bit of string and it unravels covering the planet. The buzzing starts. The buzzing gets faster and louder. Theyre all racing to one spot on the earth. Im outside of it and I can see everything. I can see every person in the world racing to a single spot on the earth. The buzzing is all I can hear. It gets so I cant take it. Then I wake up.

He looked at me that first day like he had just found something hed lost a thousand years ago.

Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams.

However small we are we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I dont mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swordsI mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams.And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look perhaps we might all work togetherand break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.

Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins

...if Faith shows up in your dreams again tonight do yourself a favor and dream on.

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.