Ancestry gets turned into paperwork too easily. A surname, a box, a country, a race, maybe a family tree if somebody took the time

Walking away has a bad reputation with people who think every confrontation needs a winner standing over somebody else. I never understood survival that

Progress is a word people like to use after something changes. A law changes, a door opens, a sign comes down, somebody enters a

Fame has a way of making the person look larger while making the private life smaller. That is the contradiction that interests me. Everybody

Anybody can tear into an idea. That part comes easy. Somebody says what they want to build, and before the sentence is finished there

A tree does not explain itself. It just stands there doing the work. Roots below the ground, trunk holding weight, limbs reaching, leaves turning