Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.