One Night I Looked Down And My

We Need A Witness To Our Lives. There's A Billion People On The Planet... I Mean, What Does Any One Life Really Mean? But In A Marriage, You're Promising To Care About Everything. The Good Things, The Bad Things, The Terrible Things, The Mundane Things... All Of It, All Of The Time, Every Day. You're Saying 'your Life Will Not Go Unnoticed Because I Will Notice It. Your Life Will Not Go Un-witnessed Because I Will Be Your Witness'.

You Have To Take Away The Idea That Something You Do Is Right Or Wrong. I Don't Think There's A Right Or A Wrong; I Think There's An "it Works" Or "it Doesn't Work" For The Whole. And That's Why You Need A Director You Trust, So You Can Just Keep Throwing Out Suggestions.

In Terms Of Our Foreign Policy, That's Where We Made A Mistake After 9/11. Everyone's Going, "why, Why, Why," And There Wasn't Any Investigation Or Learning From Any Of What We Had Been Doing Up To That Time That Had Set Us Up.

It Didn't Seem To Have Relevance, Except In Central America Or South America, Countries Where The Church Was Connected To The Fight Of The People For Economic Justice. That's Why It Was So Interesting To Find Myself Back With Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], This New Breed Of Nuns Who Were Making A Difference In The Community.

I'm A Native New Yorker. Everything To Do With New York Feels Like My Family.