Aurora

I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.