When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Write as if your parents are dead.

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long.