My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.