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“We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.”
― The Middle Place
― The Middle Place
“How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?”
― The Middle Place
― The Middle Place
“I love you.
The first time the words pass between two people: electrifying.
Ten thousand times later: cause for marvel.
The last time: the dream you revisit over and over and over again.”
― Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
The first time the words pass between two people: electrifying.
Ten thousand times later: cause for marvel.
The last time: the dream you revisit over and over and over again.”
― Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“I Go Down To The Shore
I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall—
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“Like the padre said, life is a mystery to be lived. Live your mystery.”
― Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
― Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
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