A Selection of Quotes I've Enjoyed Recently

Handwriting is the first physical way we learned to write.  Hand connected to arm, to shoulder, to heart.  

Natalie Goldberg

The True Secret of Writing

pg. xi

I loved the wild warmth of the North Atlantic, the deep shaggy woods, the wry sense of humor of the people up there, and the feel of the air by the ocean - clean and briny, fresh and bracing.  

Kate Christensen

Blue Plate Special

pg. 249

I see how the division plays out everywhere, how this early destructive mutation of the family, just like that of a cancer cell, determines the psychic and social patterns of our existence.  The world seems to be constructed on empires born of these mutations - of poor pitted against poor, ethnic group against ethnic group, elevating one group over another - a seduction that keeps the powerful in place.  What if we weren't so susceptible to being the adored, the most, the cherished, the winner?

Eve Ensler

In The Body Of The World

pg. 138-139

Its magic was of the kind books possess when they come into our lives at the right moment to show us what we need to learn.  

Melissa Coleman

This Life Is In Your Hands

pg. 21

We didn't have a connection to God in the traditional sense, but rather a spiritual reverence for nature.  We appreciated the power of the sun to germinate our crops, the rain to keep them growing, the beauty of a sunrise, the glory of the sea sparking with diamonds.  Each found his or her own sources of wonder and mystery in the unfolding of the universe, without the guarantees and assurances that church provided.  This life was the priority, and in the effort to survive we didn't worry about what would happen afterwards.  

Melissa Coleman

This Life Is In Your Hands

pg. 185