Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.