It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.