No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.