Vanessa Ya Lopez

“The connection you are creating here is like a flower. It requires soil and sun, things that, thanks to God, are given freely. But it is you, all of us, who has to water the flower to make it grow. Without water, all relations remain small. They can’t open, and eventually they die.”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

“The hot air was pregnant with jasmine and eucalyptus.”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

“There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.”
― Matsuo Basho

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson