When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.