Gerry

“from Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army:

Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will wear the socks to keep their feet warm, blow their noses in your handkerchiefs, pull up the shorts, tuck in the size large shirts (too small for our boys, too big for our daughter), and bits of you will be out there, engaging in a life you no longer have.”
― Jane Yolen, Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After

“All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Music does not have a race or a disposition!
... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.”
― Pam Muñoz Ryan, Echo

“And endings are always the beginnings of something else.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s