There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can’t do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that’s not going to change. less than 1 minute read
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we’re used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we’re moving closer and closer to that tipping point. less than 1 minute read
I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate. less than 1 minute read
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. less than 1 minute read
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever. less than 1 minute read
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. less than 1 minute read
I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. less than 1 minute read
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. less than 1 minute read
I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late - whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written. less than 1 minute read
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education. less than 1 minute read
