All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?