Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.