I continue to make objects that heal. Working on them allows me to do something when there is nothing more reasonable to be done.

Then it occurred to me: the resilience was not a marveled ability, a human jam, but our necessity. We were designed to dust ourselves off, with one hand if the other was hurt. We were...

What began as abstract questions, longings that I couldn’t quite articulate, became manifest and embodied in the land that I traversed.

Just as wounds mend, treatment for those wounds changes over time, as well. After years of secrecy—controlling the one element I could, the information about what happened, I no longer...

Often the healing occurs when the heart opens to what’s possible. We learn to open through practice, through poetry, through facing the past and knitting a different future.

I remembered hearing once that meditation is simply paying attention on purpose, and I felt what it meant to be fully grounded in the moment.

This is a great time to be alive, to be an American. If it’s not working as well as it ought to work, let’s do something to make it work.

However, it is clear that once a monument to such a controversial public figure is erected, ethical questions will undoubtedly arise.

As civilians we felt that we needed a healing ritual for ourselves, a ritual (in this case a play) that allowed us to commune with veterans, understand their stories, and to connect with...

I realized that I could not allow conflict to pollute the beauty and human purity within me with fear and frustration. I have the power to love, to forgive, and to reconcile.

How many times can a cheek turn if the other cheek is pressed against the wall?

I think it’s especially rewarding when a novel satisfies a fundamental and sometimes unconscious desire for redemption.