Hal Borland

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!