If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself? - Naomi Shihab Nye

That feeling of being connected to someone else, when you allow yourself to be very particular, is another mystery of writing.

There was a door in the heart
that had no lock on it.

We always heard when we were little that to read a poem we needed to read it slowly and we needed to read it more than once and to write a poem you had to pay close attention, write it slowly. And I think we have to live that way. We really do. There's a Thai proverb Life is so short, we must move very slowly. And I think that the word busy-ness finally just has to go. Busy-ness has to go.