Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

Big messages come in small packages. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Cancer changes your whole life.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.