Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

There is no problem a library card can't solve.