'Hope begins in the dark, 

the stubborn hope that if you just show up 

and try to do the right thing, 

the dawn will come.
You wait and watch and work: 

you don't give up.'

~ Anne Lamott ~

Feeling...

Image by Nicholas Pastore

'I feel it now: there’s a power in me

to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me,

to meet and be met.'

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Living Life

'In order to write about life,

 first you must live it.'

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

JOY

   

'Joy does not simply happen to us.

We have to choose joy 

and keep choosing it every day.' 

~ Henri Nouwen ~

Optimism

‘Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.

Because unless you believe that the future can be better,

you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.’

~ Noam Chomsky ~

The Remaking of Life

 Image created with Art displayed in Tracy Verdugo's studio unit

'Grief is in two parts. The first is loss.
The second is the remaking of life.'

~ Anne Roiphe ~

Glimpsing the Future

Image from The Hunter Valley Gardens

‘There is always one moment
in childhood when the door opens
and lets the future in.’

~ Graham Greene ~