New songs help us express things we can’t say.

Approach the problem with the confidence you can solve it.

Creativity is a necessary skill for surviving pain.

You can’t remove the ice without the patience to chip away at it.

Authority doesn’t really win. Love does.

I’m learning to let grace and discipline work as partners.

Tomorrow will be different—and beautiful.

It’s easier to believe light wins when you can find a way to laugh.

Think local theater, not blockbuster movie.

Tear-downs are quick and easy. Creating takes time.

Unbuttoning is the necessary first step toward something new

It’s not how lovable we are, but how loving we can be toward one another.

Singing together is among the most powerful and subversive things we do together.

Let’s hope this thing flies.

Stay in the fight.

You’ll die if you just sit there. So move.

Even if we don’t get to decide what time sets out on the buffet before us, we nonetheless have some say in what goes on our plates.

If we learn to swerve and don’t give up, we will find what wondrous things await us.

Improvisation is the convergence of planning and execution.

Discovering unexpected competencies takes work—the kind nerds know how to do.