The beginning of love…

Advice for a Writer and Everyone Too

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

Sing Your Death Song

‎”When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

- Cheif Tecumseh

Imperfect We

‎”The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,

[she] becomes an adolescent;

the day [she] forgives them, [she] becomes an adult;

the day [she] forgives herself, [she] becomes wise.”

- Alden Nowlan

We Learn Through What We Love

“Each time I hear
of some new passion, I feel gratitude
at one more instance of the many ways
we learn through what we love to love the world –
which might be all that we are here to do.”

- Julia Alvarez, from “Aficionados,” The Woman I Kept to Myself

For What It’s Worth

True?

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”  ~William Shakespeare

My Kindness

The Cave You Fear

Supreme Happiness

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — [not] loved in spite of ourselves.”

~  Victor Hugo, Les Misérables