“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking it we learn to be human.” ~Hannah Arendt
Rome, Italy
“I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.” ~Nikita Gill
St. Louis, Missouri
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~John Muir
St. Louis, Missouri
“The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can’t understand.” ~Elena Ferrante
St. Louis, Missouri
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou
Florence, Italy
“An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don’t know is infinite.” ~Jenny Erpenbeck
St. Louis, Missouri
“But to be oneself, one must first waste a little time.” ~Elizabeth Bowen
Aspen, Colorado
“There are no unsacred places;/there are only sacred places/and desecrated places.” ~Wendell Barry
St. Louis, Missouri
“Living a life that is true to yourself is a simple practice of staying present with the questions that matter to you.” ~Amy Whitaker
Paris, France
“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.” ~Eudora Welty