I Read Neither Good Nor

My Parents Used To Park Us Kids At The Public Library In Downtown Honolulu Every Saturday. They'd Leave Us There At 8 A.m. And Pick Us Up At 4 P.m. - So Between Those Hours, You'd Better Find Something To Do! I Sat Upstairs In The Picture Room And Went Through Opera, Ballet, And Theater Books. I Loved The Photographs Of People Wearing Elaborate Makeup And Costumes - They Really Pulled At Me Inside. I Was In That Library Every Week For Years, Until I Was About 13. I Had A Rich Interior Life, Because I Didn't Have Much Of A Social Life.

If You Can Accept Your Differentness And Learn To Love It And Encourage It, Then You Can Be Someone Wonderful.

I Decided Years Ago Not To Read Stories About Myself Anymore. Each One Is A Potential Minefield: Whatever It Says, You're Bound To Take It The Wrong Way. Why Do It If You Know It's Going To Make You Miserable?

Just Remember, During The Winter, Far Beneath The Bitter Snow, That There's A Seed That With The Sun's Love In The Spring Becomes A Rose.

My Whole Life Had Been Spent Waiting For An Epiphany, A Manifestation Of God's Presence, The Kind Of Transcendent, Magical Experience That Lets You See Your Place In The Big Picture. And That Is What I Had With My First [compost] Heap.