Yet I’ve learned again and again I can’t go over, under, or around, and I can’t turn back. No matter how high or rough the surf, going through every stage is where the living is.
-Andrea Jarrell, I’m the One Who Got Away
quotations and poetry
I’m not sure of anything
I do know that I love many believers and I pulse with gratitude that wants a locus and I wonder about the wonders I see around me and feel inside me. But I’m not sure of anything.
-Kelly Corrigan, Tell Me More
Attention
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
~ Simone Weil
Yet another gem from the luminous A First Sip.
Make your way through it with grace
“Sometimes the answer is ‘This is life, in all its variety. Make your way through it with grace, and never forget that I love you.’ ”
—Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter
Indeed. Thank you to my friend Katie, on whose beautiful blog I found these words.
she lets the earth turn slowly around her
She lets the earth turn slowly around her and she thinks, you are doing this for a reason, and if you can’t see what comes next, you take each moment as it comes.
– My Absolute Darling, Gabriel Tallent