I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.